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How They Spent the Summer Summer is prime time for Rochester students to dive into research.

RochRev_Sept2017.indb 1 8/30/17 10:29 PM “I’ve always felt indebted to alumni who donated and funded the scholarships ENGINEERING that allowed me to attend Rochester. Returning that favor to future students is the least I could do.” A BRIGHTER — Koji Muto ’15 BS, Mechanical Engineering | BA, Business Project Development Engineer, ExxonMobil Member, George Eastman Circle Houston, Texas TOMORROW Supports: Hajim School of Engineering FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS & Applied Sciences

The couple, Founding Members of the Wilson Society, at the dedication of the Dr. Dennis A. Clements III and Dr. Martha Ann Keels EIoH Pediatric Dentistry Clinic. A Marriage of Medicine and Dentistry The care of children is a shared passion for Dr. Dennis A. that will forever enable medical students to participate in global Clements III ’72M (MD) and his wife, Dr. Martha Ann Keels. health initiatives in countries with health disparities. While a So when Dr. Clements, a pediatrician and global health educator, UR medical student, Dr. Clements was given a scholarship to and Dr. Keels, a pediatric dentist who also works with special participate in public health programs abroad, a transformational needs children, wanted to support initiatives at UR Medicine, experience now ensured for future generations of students. they decided the best strategy was a blended gift. “Rochester invested in me,” he said. “I’m simply returning a dividend.” Their outright gift will allow renovations and technology updates to the pediatric dentistry clinic at Eastman Institute for “It seemed like a great fit, marrying both dentistry and medicine,” Oral Health. Their bequest will one day endow a named fund said Dr. Keels. “Rochester is one of the few places that recognizes them as being equally important for a child’s total health.”

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Forever 32 Building a Friends Better Network Alumni Relations looks to expand and Randomly assigned as deepen the connections that graduates roommates in 1983, Karen have with the University and with one Price Pavlicin-Fragnito ’87 another. Interview by Scott Hauser and Jodi Parker Seidner ’87, ’91S (MBA) (above) have been best friends for more 36 What They than three decades. The ties Did This Summer lasted through all four years The River Campus is home to a as roommates on the River robust community of undergraduate Campus, marriages to college researchers during the summer. sweethearts, early careers in business, parenthood, and as entrepreneurs running their 42 Fall Looks own successful businesses. The first days of the semester are filled They return to campus this with events, activities, and ceremonies to fall for their 30th reunion. welcome new and returning students.

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In Review 56 Graduate Arts, Sciences 14 46 & Engineering 6 Summer Sequences 58 Eastman School of A biologist studies the Music genome of fireflies. 58 School of Medicine and 8 The Skies Have It Dentistry Rochester students, faculty, and staff looked to 59 School of Nursing the skies for this summer’s 59 Simon Business School eclipse. 59 Happy Birthday, 10 Start of the Semester George! SelfieThe Class of 2021 starts the 2017–18 school 60 Warner School of year with a picture before Education heading out for Wilson 60 In Memoriam Day. 61 Joseph Cunningham 12 Light, Sound . . . ’67 (MA): Remembering Interactivity. Action! a supporter of the Drawing on deep humanities. expertise in light, music, and optics, a new initiative 64 A Child’s (Diverse) aims to showcase Garden of Literature Children’s classics can Rochester’s leadership in send troubling messages emerging technologies. not what the archivist can school graduate prepares to kids. Philip Nel ’92 answer for you . . .” to offer advice to students. 14 The Art of Preserving says teach the books— Opportunity Philosopher 20 Discover A roundup of 49 In the News A TV star, but critically, and in the Randall Curren considers recent research news. a food bank leader, and a context of a wide range of what sustainability really first-in-class scholar. literature. 22 In Brief A new policy for means. residence hall roommates 50 A Timeline: Rochester’s 16 A Stately Genesee is introduced, an East individual national Rochester’s newest High project goes to the champions. residence hall overlooks space station, and other the Brian F. Prince campus news. Class Notes Athletic Complex. 24 What’s the Outlook 51 College Arts, for the Yellowjackets? 17 Quick Count: Class Sciences & Rochester’s fall varsity of 2021 This year’s Engineering incoming class is one of sports teams are looking the University’s most forward to successful 54 Eastman high achieving and most campaigns in 2017. Honors diverse, according to University preliminary figures. Alumni Gazette Advisor, Leader 18 Rochester to Lead 46 A Soprano’s Lyric (and National Translational Lyrical) Debut Whitney Sciences Network The Morrison ’15E (MM) takes Medical Center will the stage in Lyric Opera of coordinate an NIH effort Chicago’s Rigoletto. to turn discoveries to health benefits. 48 What Goes into a Commencement 64 19 Ask the Archivist: “Ask Address? A medical

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LSI: Showcasing Rochester’s Innovative Spirit B y Joel Seligman

The spirit of innovation is alive and well in Rochester. From September 12 to 14, Rochester will host the inaugural celebration of Light and Sound Interactive (LSI), a unique conference and expo that focus on light- and sound-based technologies and their 21st-century applications to some of the fastest growing markets in the world, including virtual and augmented reality, video games, media, film, and music. LSI includes an interactive conference, trade show, career fair, live demos, museum tours, networking opportunities, and events for start-up companies. The inspiration for LSI grew out of activities at the Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences, a New York State– VIRTUAL TOUCH: Lucian Copeland ’16 was part of a student team that developed a prototype for funded Center for Advanced Technology a virtual reality system that mimics the sensation of touch. at the University of Rochester. With economic development as a core mission of the strengths, building on optics, photonics, visual correction, restoration, rehabilita- center, Director and Chair of Electrical and and imaging, as well as in music and clin- tion, and assistance. Emmy Award–winning Computer Engineering Mark Bocko and ical care. LSI will highlight topics central composer and conductor Mark Watters, in- Executive Director Paul Ballentine sought to the University’s field-defining Institute augural director of Eastman’s Beal Institute ways to draw attention to the vast technical of Optics, our world-renowned music cul- for Film Music and Contemporary Media, and creative resources of our community ture anchored by the Eastman School of along with Rochester native Jack Allocco, and to build enthusiasm about possibilities. Music, and our pathbreaking clinical pro- Seattle-based Guy Whitmore, and other Drawing inspiration from the highly suc- grams at the Medical Center, as well as prominent composers of music for media cessful South by Southwest Conference in one of our newest signature programs, au- ranging from television to video games, Austin, Texas, an annual event celebrating dio and music engineering. Attendees will will join in a session to mark the launch of the convergence of the interactive, film, be able to explore how light and sound the Beal Institute. Our Del Monte Neuro- and music industries and bringing 50,000 technologies are used to create immersive medicine Institute Director John Foxe and registrants to Austin, they had the idea of experiences that span arts, games, social Sophie Molholm, a faculty member at the creating LSI. interactions, and live performances, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will The field of virtual and augmented real- understand how they are being used to de- host a panel addressing audiovisual pro- ity (VR/AR) is projected to grow from $6 tect and treat illnesses, improve the qual- cessing in neurodevelopmental disorders. billion in 2016 to more than $100 billion ity of life, and help people with visual and A key part of LSI will be a trade show fea- in 2020. Companies such as Apple, Goo- auditory impairments. turing local optics and imaging companies gle, Facebook, and Amazon are investing One particularly exciting conference ses- as well as start-ups from across the country. heavily in light- and sound-based technol- sion will highlight medical applications of In parallel, a career fair will be open to job ogies that underlie these developments. virtual reality. Three University physicians, seekers, including students from all area LSI’s promise of in-depth and interdisci- Dave Mitten, Charles Duffy, and Benjamin colleges and universities and individuals plinary immersion in this field will draw Crane, will share their expertise, clinical who are already in the workforce. people from across the United States and experience, and insights on a panel moder- As with the South by Southwest Confer- Canada. Audiences will include technol- ated by University faculty member Gregory ence, we expect that LSI will lead to eco- ogists, artists and musicians, media cre- DeAngelis. They will discuss uses of virtual nomic development in Rochester through ators, students, teachers, entrepreneurs, reality to enable enhanced physical exams new company incubation, growth of the investors, and others. The timing of LSI, of patients and more effective treatments area’s existing optics, imaging, and audio immediately preceding the KeyBank Roch- for a range of impairments. companies and by attracting new com- ester Fringe Festival, will allow attendees University faculty members Krystel Hux- panies to the region. LSI provides an op- to stay past the conference to experience lin, Ajay Kuriyan, and David Williams will portunity for visitors to the region to see a broad spectrum of music and other per- be joined by speakers from other institu- firsthand the vibrancy and innovation of formance art. tions in panel sessions that address the the city of Rochester as well as our numer- The topic of the LSI conference is con- needs of the blind and visually impaired ous and variegated strengths as a research sistent with the University’s core research community and emerging technologies for university.r

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office phone rang. It was freight handlers at the railroad station who wanted to know what to do with a huge black spider that had crawled out of a shipment of bananas, September–October 2017 VOLUME 80, NO. 1 and that they had in a box. I raced downtown, picked up the creature, and pre- Editor sented it to a delighted Dr. Muchmore the Scott Hauser following morning. Thirty years later, on a Associate Editors college tour, I introduced him to our oldest Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) son. He was remarkably unchanged in ap- Kathleen McGarvey pearance, voice, and personality. A remark- Contributors able person who touched so many lives. Emily Boynton, Jeanette Colby, Theresa Danylak, Joyce Farrell, Adam Fenster, Paul Ephraim ’61 Peter Iglinski, Sandra Knispel, Jim Studio City, California Mandelaro, Phyllis Mangefrida, Bob Marcotte, Melissa Mead, Mark Michaud, Photographic Test Sara Miller, Dennis O’Donnell, Jessica Several alumni recognized classmates in O’Leary, Susanne Pallo, Scott Sabocheck, the photo on the first page of Class Notes Sofia Tokar, Laura Torchia, Lindsey Valich, in the July-August issue. Lorena Stabins Jim Ver Steeg, and Brandon Vick ’95W (MS) of Pittsford, New York, showed Business Manager the photo to her mother, Linda Wermuth Maureen Baisch REMARKABLE LEGACY: The late William Editorial Office Muchmore, a professor of biology, is Stabins ’60, ’64W (MA). “She was able to confirm that those freshmen in the pho- 22 Wallis Hall remembered as “a remarkable person who University of Rochester touched many lives.” to are indeed taking placement tests. She Box 270044, Rochester, NY 14627-0044 said there were TONS of them. Unfortu- (585) 275-4121 More Tributes to Muchmore nately, she did not recognize anyone in the Fax: (585) 275-0359 Like Ms. [Wendy Beth] Jackelow ’83, I photo. Thanks for the stroll down mem- E-mail: [email protected] www. have many memories of Dr. [William] ory lane.” For the ID’s, Brenda Miller rochester.edu/pr/Review Muchmore (Tributes, July-August). A gen- Thalacker ’60 of Whitmore Lake, Mich- Address Changes eration earlier, in 1959, I took vertebrate igan, says the photo shows “fourth from 300 East River Road anatomy with him and then served as a the right, the late Patti O’Day ’60 (glass- Box 270032 Rochester, NY 14627-0032 teaching assistant in the course. He was a es), next to her Fay Wadsworth Whitney (585) 275-8602; toll free: (866) 673-0181 wonderfully kind and soft-spoken person, ’60, ’61N (tall), and then a possible Mar- Email: [email protected] dramatically different from his popular gie Griffith Ward ’60. We are all reading, rochester.edu/alumni/stay-connected/ image as the stern gatekeeper for medi- but no one is writing.” Gail Paxson Mates alumni-update-form cal school applicants. One of my fondest ’60 of Coronado, California, also thought Design memories was being in the lab in Dewey the student in the middle of the row was Steve Boerner Typography & Design Inc. one midnight, staining my slides, when the Faye Wadsworth Whitney and guessed that Published six times a year for alumni, students, their parents, and other friends of the University, Rochester Review is produced by University Communications. Opinions expressed are those of the authors, the editors, or their subjects and do not necessarily represent official positions of the University of Rochester. ISSN: 0035-7421

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WHO’S WHO? Alumni from the Class of 1960 identified their classmates.

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rr_Sept2017_Toc.indd 4 8/31/17 2:21 PM LETTERS the first student on the right isPatricia G. (Scotty) Burns (1906–67), was drafted by example of a scout was Tom Greenwade. Wheeler Green ’60, ’61N and next to her, the St. Louis Cardinals in his senior year at He worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Barbara Joan Sloan ’60. Gail notes: “Won- the University in 1929. recommended to Branch Rickey that a der if all were snoozing!” And for Ellen Let me quote from an article about my young player named Jackie Robinson was Kleinman Siff ’63 of Trumbull, Connecti- father that was published in the Roches- worth a contract. Later when he worked cut, the photo prompted a thought about ter Times Union on June 12, 1967: “In 1929, for the Yankees, one of his suggested play- beanies and tests: “In addition to the dread- he was signed to the St. Louis Cardinal ers was Mickey Mantle. ed beanies (as the Class of 1963, we were organization by Branch Rickey and War- In writing about John Ghyzel, we lim- the last required to wear them), I seem to ren Giles. He was with the Rochester Red ited our story to MLB draftees from 1965 recall that, shockingly, we took the MMPI. Wings, then later played for the Danville, on because we were concerned that before Or perhaps that was our class.” Ill. entry in the Three Eye League.” that point, we would miss some people— My father was an outstanding ath- your dad among them. The Cardinals, lete and starred in both baseball with the Rochester Red Wings and basketball at the Univer- as their farm team, had an sity. After retiring from advantage in terms of ath- professional baseball letes getting a lengthy during the Great De- look. Gerald Zornow pression, he contin- ’37, for example, was ued to play semipro signed by St. Louis baseball and basket- after graduation. ball for a number of We are always Totally Thoreau years in the Roches- seeking ways to up- Your fascinating story about Raymond ter area. date our informa- Borst’s devoted Thoreau scholarship My brother, John tion. Right now, we should have us all thinking about him G. Burns Jr. ’57, fol- are trying to focus on during his bicentennial year. Anoth- lowed in my father’s no-hitters for baseball. er Rochester figure who had strong con- footsteps and was captain We suspect there have nections to Thoreau and who must have of the U of R’s baseball and been more than two, but known Borst well, was Steve Thomas, the basketball teams; I ran track can only generate information late director of the Rochester Museum and for four years and briefly on two: David Strandberg ’17 John G. (Scotty) Burns Science Center. He had two great loves, played football there. threw a no-hitter against mushrooms and Thoreau, and had been the The University has a long history, and I Bard College in 2014 and Bill Standera no- president of the Thoreau Society. thought you would want to be aware of my hit St. Bonaventure in 1970. Are you aware When he graduated from college, he went father’s achievements. of any others? to Concord to meet an old man who as a Richard Burns ’67 Our coaching records indicate that your teenager had helped Thoreau move a piano, Silver Spring, Maryland dad played for Edwin Fauver through 1928, the same Thoreau who, walking the Cape, then for Tom Davies in his senior year met the octogenarian Oyster Man of Well- Dennis O’Donnell, director of athletic (1929). Your brother would have played fleet, who as a boy had seen George Wash- communications, replies: for Lou Alexander, for whom the Louis Al- ington ride into Boston with his troops. The exander Palestra is named. story gives me goose bumps, feeling how Thank you for bringing to light your father closely we are connected to our Revolution. as someone who signed with the St. Louis Review welcomes letters and will print Until September 10, there is a remarkable Cardinals. Scott Sabocheck’s story men- them as space permits. Letters may be show of over 100 relics from Thoreau’s life tioned only the players who were taken edited for brevity and clarity. Unsigned at the Morgan Library in New York City, and in the Major League Baseball draft, which letters cannot be used. Send letters it will move to the Concord Museum from began in 1965. Before that, teams did their to Rochester Review, 22 Wallis Hall, September 29 through January 21, 2018. own scouting work and the scouts would Box 270044, University of Rochester, David Tinling ’63M (Res) recommend which players were worthy Rochester, NY 14627-0044; rochrev@ Rochester, Vermont of a professional contract. One famous rochester.edu.

A Draft of Baseball History In the July-August issue, I was drawn to the baseball article, “Yellowjacket Pitcher My father was an outstanding athlete and Drafted to Major Leagues.” The subtitle es- starred in both baseball and basketball at the pecially drew my attention, as it referred to John Ghyzel ’18 as the “second Rochester University. After retiring from professional baseball player ever drafted by a profes- baseball during the Great Depression, sional organization” and referred to Mi- chael Weiermiller ’83 as being the first. he continued to play semipro baseball and While I certainly respect the accom- basketball for a number of years in plishments of these two U of R athletes, I would like to mention that my father, John the Rochester area.—Richard Burns ’67

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BIOLOGY Summer Sequences FLASH LIGHTS: A group from the biology department traveled to the Allegheny National Forest in northwest Pennsylvania this summer to view and collect fireflies as part of a project to study the insect’s genomics. The group observed several species, including Father Mac’s fireflyPhotinus ( macdermotti), the Big Dipper firefly (Photinus pyralis), and the Chinese Lantern fireflyPhoturis ( versicolor-complex)—all shown here in a composite image. Amanda Larracuente, an assistant professor of biology and the Stephen Biggar ’92 and Elisabeth Asaro ’92 Fellow in Data Science, is working to sequence the genome of the Big Dipper firefly, including studying the genes involved in the chemical reaction that produces the characteristic flashes of light that the insects use to communicate. COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH BY J. ADAM FENSTER

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 7 8/30/17 10:29 PM CELESTIAL EVENTS The Skies Have It SUN SEEKERS: Warner School graduate student Blake Harriman, Emily Ivey ’18, and Nick Potter ’17 were among the many students, faculty, and staff on campus who watched the solar eclipse as it made its way across the United States on August 21. While Rochester was not in the “zone of totality” this summer, make reservations for April 8, 2024, when the path of the next total eclipse in the United States aligns with Rochester. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. ADAM FENSTER

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 9 8/30/17 10:29 PM CLASS PORTRAIT Start of the Semester Selfie CLASS CAMARADERIE: The members of the Class of 2021 gathered on the Wilson Quadrangle to kick off Wilson Day, the annual day of community service that helps mark the start of the semester for first-year students. Before heading out into the Rochester community to take part in projects, the roughly 1,400 members of the class lined up to form “UR 21.” For more from the start of the new academic year, see pages 42 to 45. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. ADAM FENSTER

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AUDIO ENGINEERING: As an engineer, Mark Bocko has developed ways to improve audio technology for applications like flat-screen displays.

SHOWCASING ROCHESTER Light, Sound . . . Interactivity. Action! Drawing on deep expertise in light, music, and optics, a new initiative aims to showcase Rochester’s leadership in the growing fields of imaging and audio technologies. By Bob Marcotte the Rochester region. The conference also What Rochester offers serves as a segue to the KeyBank Rochester Rochester has the ingredients to create its • The largest cluster of optics, imaging and Fringe Festival, an arts and cultural show- own Silicon Valley in emerging imaging photonics companies in the nation. case that employs many of the technologies and audio technologies. • Two major universities (University of Roch- featured in Light and Sound Interactive. The pieces are in place to establish ester and RIT) with world-class expertise Scheduled keynote speakers include Rochester as a leader—and the next step is and innovative programs in vision science, Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee to make sure the community realizes that optics, music, audio engineering, cinema, and Oscar-winning cinematographer Rob and then to let the world know it, too. animation, and many other related fields. Legato. Jeff Lieberman, a scientist, artist, That’s the vision of the organizers of Light • A rich heritage of innovation and and host of the Discovery Channel series and Sound Interactive. The new conference entrepreneurship. Time Warp, and Ainissa Ramirez, a science and expo, which takes place September 12 evangelist who is widely recognized for to 14, will feature three days of presenta- Kodak had a direct connection to consum- her campaigns to attract the next generations, panel discussions, demonstrations, ers. Everyone knew the Kodak brand, and tion of scientists and technologists, are also trade show exhibits, and networking op- everyone knew the enterprise. We want to special guests. portunities to showcase how Rochester can spur the growth of high-value enterprises But the real “chemistry” of the event— play a leading role in such growing fields as in our region with direct connections to the interactive part, says conference pro- augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and consumers.” ducer Paul Ballentine of CEIS—will occur interactive games and media. A partnership between the University at 67 panel discussions and workshops fea- “We want to help Rochester move up the and the Rochester Institute of Technology, turing researchers and entrepreneurs from value chain, ” says Mark Bocko, director of along with area businesses, trade, and civic the Rochester area and across the country. the Center for Emerging and Innovative organizations, and other groups, the con- They will discuss work in seven key ar- Sciences (CEIS) and one of the conference ference is designed to highlight the range eas: virtual and augmented reality, games organizers. “Historically, companies like and depth of the expertise and talent in and interactive media, cinema, music

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 12 8/30/17 10:29 PM IN REVIEW and audio, imaging, displays and lighting, health care, and optics and photonics. “The presentations are designed to be accessible to students, technologists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and artists. And they are meant to be thought provoking,” says Bocko, who holds the title of Distinguished University Professor and is chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “We want people to appreciate the vast- ness of the resources that we have in this community, and to get them excited about the potential this holds to build new businesses and enterprises in this area.” Bocko and Ballentine say the inspiration for LSI came from South by Southwest In- teractive in Austin, Texas, an offshoot of the renowned music and film festival. The interactive technology showcase there has helped drive the tech sector in that city. “You go to Austin and the city is full of confidence, with major companies moving in and people of all descriptions starting companies,” Bocko says. “You go to Silicon Valley, and it’s the same ‘anything is possible’ kind of attitude. “We want Rochester to be just as enthu- siastic about its own future.” For example, Rochester is uniquely posi- tioned to take a leading role in AR/VR, and especially in applications such as health care, Bocko says. • Many of Rochester’s 100-plus optics companies already provide components for major VR companies located around the country and the world. • University scientists are world leaders in vision science, which is key to creating convincing VR experiences. • The University’s Center for Freeform Optics is pioneering ways to design and make compact and efficient lenses and mir- FILM AND TV STARS: Director Ang Lee (top), who won Oscars for Life of Pi and Brokeback rors for applications like AR/VR glasses. Mountain, is scheduled to show excerpts from his newest film and to discuss his work. Jeff • Researchers at the Medical Center are Lieberman (above), a roboticist who starred in the Discovery Channel’s Time Warp series, will exploring virtual reality as a way to en- present a keynote address hance physical exams, for example, and to treat patients with dementia and vestibular disorders that cause vertigo and dizziness. “When you look at the AR/VR universe,” Bocko says, “people have poured a lot of money into games and interactive media, but the field is looking for other high-value applications, and health care is clearly an area of tremendous interest.” Bocko and Ballentine share the goal of helping Rochester build on its many ca- pabilities and world-class industry base to grow high-value enterprises and brands with direct links to consumers. “That’s the key to building lasting re- KEYNOTES: Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez (left) and Academy Award–winning gional prosperity.” says Bocko.r cinematographer Rob Legato are among the keynote speakers for the inaugural conference.

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rr_Sept2017_InReview.indd 13 8/31/17 2:20 PM IN REVIEW The Art of Preserving Opportunity Philosopher Randall Curren considers what sustainability really means.

B y Kathleen McGarvey Curren calls discussions of sustainability that turn on expenses or job losses shortsighted. “If we delay in doing things like keep- Sustainability is a well-worn term—but a hard one to define. ing the climate stable, then everything will be enormously more It’s a “messy, murky concept,” says philosopher Randall Curren, expensive in the future,” he says. “Because we’re being provided chair of the philosophy department. But he aims to bring some an incredible bounty of free services by functional climate sys- clarity with his latest book, Living Well Now and in the Future: tems and functional ecosystems. What would it cost us to replace Why Sustainability Matters (MIT Press, 2017). the work that bees do? Or to replace the work that thriving fish- “What philosophers do is try to understand concepts that we’re eries do?” accustomed to using without really thinking about what they sig- Narratives of postindustrial prosperity tend to dominate the nify,” Curren says. historical perspective people bring to the issue of sustainabili- The book in some ways mirrors a project from the 1970s. Act- ty. “They’re talking about roughly 150 years,” says Curren. But ing in response to ethical failures in medical research, the federal history is filled with the collapse of civilizations—and environ- government brought together ethicists with different theoretical mental problems, especially deforestation, played a role in a sig- perspectives. Their charge was to identify basic ethical princi- nificant number of those breakdowns. ples on which they could all agree, which were issued in the 1979 Regional collapses are already beginning, he says, pointing to Belmont Report. Syria as one example. “Look at the parts of the world that are pro- “And it turned out to be remarkably easy,” says Curren. “If you’re ducing the largest flows of refugees. They’re typically areas with actually serious about trying to come up with guidance for the severe drought. People move from inland regions, where they can ethical practice of medicine, there are things to which one would no longer farm, to coasts to fish—where the ocean is increasingly fished out, and they can’t make a living fishing, either.” And technological innovation will take humanity only so far. “The problem is the way our “We absolutely need the right kind of inventing going on, but inventing will not suffice on its own,” he says. social systems are functioning, By the start of the 19th century, the whaling industry was near our interlocked social, economic, collapse, and it endured until the 1850s only through new energy-intensive technologies, such as steam-powered ships and and political systems. . . . explosive harpoons. The energy yielded by whaling was greatly We need a radical makeover of diminished by the time petroleum became a usable source of energy, and the ensuing history of energy yield on petroleum has those human systems. And that’s followed a similar pattern. enormously challenging.” Energy transitions today will only be more complicated, Curren and Metzger argue, with a global population six times what it was when petroleum displaced whale oil—“and a way of life that is six easily agree: you should be doing no harm, you should be hon- or seven times more energy intensive,” they write. est, you should get informed consent, and so on. Not that hard.” “And we’ve never had to cooperate on a global scale, which we With his coauthor, Ellen Metzger—a professor of geology and must do to stabilize Earth’s climate and stay within other criti- director of science education at San Jose State University—Cur- cal planetary boundaries,” says Curren. “The orders of difficulty ren tries to bring a similar lucidity to the world of sustainability. are staggering.” The core of sustainability, they argue, is the “long-term preser- Matt Ferkany, an environmental philosopher at Michigan State vation of opportunities to live well.” It’s a matter of intergener- University, calls the book “clarifying and instructive.” It’s a wide- ational justice. ranging work, he says, and “covers certain important matters Curren is an international authority on educational philosophy hardly discussed elsewhere,” such as societal collapses through and ethics, and his work addresses both education and sustain- unmanageable complexity. A Chinese translation of Living Well ability. He holds a secondary appointment in the Warner School’s Now and in the Future is already underway by Beijing Normal educational leadership program and held the first professorship University Press, a rapid pace for such a book to attain a broad established in the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London. He reach. also recently held a research chair in moral and virtue education The authors don’t try to resolve the nitty-gritty of sustainability in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at England’s Uni- issues. Instead, they use the book to define the concept of sustain- versity of Birmingham. A premise of this research center is that ability and to frame the scope of the problem and the nature of institutions in a society should support the potential for people solutions needed, with the illustrative help of three case studies: to live well. the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, the National Water Manage- Curren and Metzger contend that sustainability is best under- ment System in Australia, and food production patterns in South- stood as the art of living well together without diminishing the east Asia’s Mekong region. opportunity to live well in the future. In those terms, sustainabil- “The problem is the way our social systems are functioning, our ity isn’t solely or even mainly the domain of science. Rather, they interlocked social, economic, and political systems,” says Curren. write, unsustainable practices are primarily a problem of social Those systems have been stable—but they won’t stay that way as coordination. they undercut the functioning of natural systems.

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“We need a radical makeover of those human systems,” he says. to respond to the disturbing information they learn. “You need to “And that’s enormously challenging.” provide people with ways to feel like they’re constructively en- Such a makeover requires the broad, voluntary participation gaging the problems, to feel somewhat in control, and competent of ordinary people. That’s why Curren and Metzger build a case within their own lives to do something constructive,” he says. for systematic education in sustainability. “Students have a right Curren’s book carries a similar pragmatic value, albeit on a larger to know these things,” says Curren. “We need to understand the and more abstract scale. Like the members of the Belmont Com- world in which we’re trying to live, to be able to live well in it.” mission, he and Metzger try to lead readers to imagine a fair social Teaching courses in environmental justice, he has found that for contract, grounded in common morality, addressing sustainability. some of his students—who have been known to email him fretfully “Doing one’s part to preserve opportunity is a basic moral duty in the wee hours—he needs to point them toward practical ways that no one has any good grounds for disputing,” he says.r

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NEW RESIDENCE HALL Meeting Rooms A Stately Genesee

Members of the Class of 2021 are the first to live in Rochester’s newest Single Rooms residence hall. Overlooking the Brian F. Prince Athletic Complex, the 72,000-square-foot Genesee Hall opened for the 2017–18 year. Home to about 150 first-year students, the building features four residential floors, meeting rooms for study groups and workshops, new spaces for academic and student-life services, and new facilities for athletic programs. Targeted to meet LEED Silver designation, the building was designed by the Pike Company with SWBR Architects from a concept by Ayers Saint Gross, Architects and Planners.

Boehning Varsity House Named in recognition of support from Uni- versity Trustee Christopher Boehning ’87, ’88 (MS) and his wife, Julie, the lower two levels of Genesee Hall are home to Boehning Var- sity House, a new facility that provides dedicated spaces and facilities for outdoor athletic teams. The new spaces replace shared locker rooms and other facilities in Fauver Stadium.

Lobby Softball

Lacrosse

Soccer Field Football Hockey Track and Field

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Soccer Track and Equipment Field Storage

Field Level With facilities for indi- Terrace Level The second vidual athletics programs, along with floor of Boehning Varsity spaces for sports medicine and training House also provides spaces programs and for housing equipment, so that individual teams can the first floor of Boehning Varsity House each have their own locker opens onto Fauver Stadium. rooms. Rehab

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 16 8/30/17 10:30 PM IN REVIEW DATABASE Courtyard Level Opening onto the courtyard near Susan B. Anthony Halls, Quick Count: Class of 2021 the main level also features academic Drawn from a record number of applications, the Class of 2021 rep- and student-life services. resents one of the most academically high-achieving and diverse groups of first-year students ever to arrive at the College. The num- Meeting Rooms bers will be finalized later this fall, but here’s a preliminary look.

TOTAL ENROLLMENT 1,464

Kitchen GENDER IDENTITY

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727 737 Double Rooms

Residence Levels Housing single and double rooms, the residence floors feature a bathroom area 49.7% 50.3% with six fully equipped bathrooms, each with a private shower, sink, and toilet behind a lockable door. NATIONAL ORIGIN

Fauver Spurrier Stadium Hall 992 472 students from students from 42 105 states countries

ETHNICITY 137 Asian 93 564 Hispanic Genesee Hall/ White 80 Goergen Boehning Susan B. Black Varsity House Anthony Halls Athletic Center 118 Other/Unknown Rush Rhees DOMESTIC Library 46 N White River Campus 40 324 Black Asian 23 Home Site Situated between the Brian F. Prince Athletic Hispanic Complex and Susan B. Anthony Halls, Genesee Hall is the first 39 residence hall built on the River Campus since 2012, when O’Brien Other/Unknown Hall opened in Jackson Court. INTERNATIONAL

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 17 8/30/17 10:30 PM University of Washington Weill Medical College Dartmouth College of Cornell University University of Rochester Boston University Medical College Harvard Medical School of Wisconsin State University of Tufts University University of New York at Buffalo University of California Wisconsin–Madison University of University Massachusetts San Francisco of Michigan Northwestern University Case Western University of Reserve University Yale University University of Illinois at Chicago Ohio State California at Davis Albert Einstin College of Medicine University of Utah University University of Chicago University Indiana Columbia University of Pittsburgh Stanford University University of Colorado University Icahn School of Medicine Washington University Denver New York University University University of Cincinnati University of California Los Angeles of Kentucky Rockefeller University Wake Forest University of Southern California Vanderbilt University University of Pennsylvania University of New Mexico University University of California Irvine Pennsylvania State University/ Hershey Medical Center

Scripps Research Institute Emory Johns Hopkins University UT Southwestern Medical Center University University of California San Diego University of Alabama Children’s Research Institute at Birmingham Georgetown University University of Texas/ Duke University University of Texas/ Health Science Center Houston Health Science Center San Antonio University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical University of South Carolina University of Texas Network Connections Medical Branch at Galveston University of Florida HEALTH CENTER: The Medical Center will University of Miami be home to an NIH–recognized center to coordinate the work of researchers at more than 50 institutions to turn scientific FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, GRANTS UL1TR002001, KL2TR001999, TL1TR002000 AND U24TR002260. discoveries into health benefits. THIS MAP WAS DERIVED FROM REPORTER DATA THAT NCATS POSTED TO ITS CTSA PROGRAM WEBPAGES ON AUGUST 24, 2017.

DISCOVERY TO HEALTH Rochester to Lead National Translational Sciences Network The Medical Center will coordinate NIH effort to turn discoveries to health benefits. By Susanne Pallo institutions benchmark their progress in tute and director of the Center for Com- comparison to the network as a whole and munity Health, says the goal of the NIH’s The Medical Center will coordinate the identify areas where improvement may be translational sciences program is to speed work of more than 50 institutions to help needed or where efforts could be reduced. medical and population health interven- researchers turn scientific discoveries into Announced this summer, the funding is tions to people who need them. health benefits faster as the hub of a Na- the latest in a decade-long recognition of “No single institution can do this alone, tional Institutes of Health network. Rochester’s national leadership in clini- and we don’t want to reinvent the wheel at Funded with a $19 million grant from cal and translational science. In 2006, the each institution, so we must create ways to the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Medical Center received one of the first easily access and leverage each other’s re- Translational Sciences, Rochester will be- NIH grants designed to accelerate the ap- sources, tools, and expertise,” Bennett says. come home to the Center for Leading In- plication of discoveries in medical science. Early in the national program’s history, novation and Coordination. The center will Since then, Rochester’s Clinical and Trans- member institutions worked largely inde- create virtual and in-person platforms for lational Science Institute has received pendently and best practices or resources institutions to share data and educational nearly $105 million in NIH funding and has developed at one institution were not eas- materials, track success, communicate with supported nearly 100 trainees and funded ily transferred to the others as was orig- one another, and develop collaborations. close to 200 projects for a total of nearly inally intended. The National Center for The center, led by Martin Zand, a pro- $15 million at the University. Researchers Advancing Translational Sciences estab- fessor of medicine and codirector of Roch- and trainees supported by the center have lished funding for a coordinating center ester’s Clinical and Translational Science secured $102 million in external funding. to facilitate collaboration among awarded Institute, and Deborah Ossip, a professor Since 2011, the institute has been housed institutions. of public health sciences and director of in the Saunders Research Building at the The center will also help communicate the institute’s Population Health Research Medical Center. the importance of the program to govern- Postdoctoral Program, will help member Nancy Bennett, codirector of the insti- ment stakeholders and US taxpayers.r

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University of Washington Weill Medical College Dartmouth College of Cornell University Ask the Archivist: University of Rochester Boston University Medical College Harvard Medical School ‘Ask Not What the Archivist Can Answer for You . . .’ of Wisconsin State University of Tufts University University of New York at Buffalo A question for Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University of California Wisconsin–Madison University of University Massachusetts University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian. San Francisco of Michigan Northwestern University Case Western University of Reserve University Yale University On the back of Bausch & Lomb Hall, there is a balcony or Optics from 1938 to 1953. During World War II, Review noted that University of Illinois at Chicago Ohio State California at Davis Albert Einstin College of Medicine University of Utah University observation deck off the fourth floor. Was it used to address O’Brien “probably had been given more tough research assignments University of Chicago University Indiana Columbia University of Pittsburgh students and staff, or for events? Do you have anything than any single scientist in the United States.” One assignment, top Stanford University University of Colorado University Icahn School of Medicine Washington University that would explain our mysterious balcony?—Shawn Casey, secret until the October 1946 meeting of the Optical Society of Amer- Denver New York University University University of Cincinnati Churchville, New York ica, was the icaroscope: “With the icaroscope, the human eye does University of California Los Angeles of Kentucky Rockefeller University Wake Forest not look directly at the sun itself or any object in line with the sun. University of Southern California Vanderbilt University University of Pennsylvania The balcony on the back of Bausch & Lomb Memorial Hall (facing Instead, the light is focused on the phosphorescent screen. The screen University of New Mexico University University of California Irvine Pennsylvania State University/ Hoyt Hall) was intended as the scene of scientific, not theatrical has an afterglow, and reproduces the image but at greatly reduced Hershey Medical Center events. It was requested by Professor Brian O’Brien for the purpose brilliance,” reported the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, one of many newspa- Scripps Research Institute Emory Johns Hopkins University pers to report the invention. On August 21, members of UT Southwestern Medical Center University University of California San Diego University of Alabama Children’s Research Institute the University community had the chance to use a modern at Birmingham Georgetown University icaroscope to view the solar eclipse, courtesy of Jim Zavis- University of Texas/ Duke University lan, an associate professor of optics. University of Texas/ Health Science Center Houston Health Science Center San Antonio University of North Carolina Chapel Hill I graduated from the River Campus in 1960. Early Medical University of South Carolina University of Texas that year, or possibly in late 1959, John F. Kennedy Medical Branch at Galveston University of Florida visited the campus and met with a group of University of Miami students. I took pictures of him at the event, which were published in the Campus-Times. I would like to locate those pictures, but I believe the Campus- Times is not available online for that year. Can you check to see if the pictures might be available either online or in hard copy? —Richard Miller ’60, Washington, D.C.

Kennedy had a whirlwind day in Rochester on October 1, 1959, which the Campus-Times reported using a sequence of your photographs. In addition to speaking to a standing-room-only crowd in Strong Auditorium, Kennedy was booked to address the Rochester Ad Club, for a television interview with Channel 10, had a 3 p.m. meeting with area Democratic Party chairs, held what we would today call a town Need History? hall meeting at Temple B’rith Do you have a ques- Kodesh at 7 p.m., and finished the tion about University day with an 8 p.m. speech and history? Email it to rally with the Democratic County rochrev@rochester. Committee at the Auditorium. edu. Please put “Ask The Campus-Times, Tower- the Archivist” in the Times, and their respective SUN SETTINGS: Brian O’Brien, director of the Institute of Optics from 1938 to 1953 subject line. predecessors have recently been (left), helped develop the icaroscope, a telescope designed for studying the sun. Optics faculty demonstrated a modern version of the device during August’s eclipse. digitized, and will be available online soon. The University Archives holds thousands of of “study[ing] the sun’s rays from sun rise to sun set” using a spectro- images, but relatively few original photographs from student publica- scope weighing 800 pounds that was connected to equipment within tions, and always welcomes the gift (or loan) of images in any format— the building. photographs, negatives, slides, and digital. Like the ivy on the Eastman Quadrangle (Rochester Review, July-August 2017), the balcony was an embellishment to the original . . . Ask What You Can Answer for the Archivist campus plan that was initially opposed for aesthetic reasons. “Dr. The Archives (and the Archivist) can locate the answers to many fact- Rhees stated that unquestionably the Bausch & Lomb Memorial based questions, but not the “what was it like” kind: did you see the Building had been built for use, and if [the] balcony as contemplated is Kennedy(s) in Strong Auditorium? needed, it will be built.” It was completed in November 1930, at a total Many thanks to all those who responded regarding their student- cost of $891. O’Brien, one of the University’s most enduring figures, soldier experiences; your memories and insights will enrich the exhibit joined the faculty in 1930, and served as director of the Institute of in the short-term, and the Archives for the duration.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 19 8/30/17 10:30 PM Discover An Eye Test That Could Help Diagnose Autism New research on rapid eye movements could herald a new tool to help physicians identify a sub-group of people with autism. The rapid eye movements that humans make when shifting attention from one object to another, known as saccades, are essential to understanding and interacting with the world. Saccades are controlled by the cerebellum, a densely packed structure of neurons that plays a role in motor control as well as emotion and cognition, due to its connections to the rest of the brain. There is growing evidence that the structure of the cere- GLIAL GLITCHES: Childhood-onset schizophrenia may begin in faulty glial cells—brain cells that protect bellum is altered in some people neurons and help them build communication networks. with autism. A series of experiments led by John Foxe, the Kilian J. and Where Does Schizophrenia Begin? Caroline F. Schmitt Professor in Neuroscience and director of the New Evidence Points to Glial Cells Del Monte Institute for Neurosci- Researchers at the Medical The findings, published in the communication networks, ence, and Edward Freedman, an Center have identified a potential journal Cell, suggest that child- appears to be a primary contribu- associate professor in the Depart- culprit behind the wiring prob- hood-onset schizophrenia may tor to the disease,” he says. ment of Neuroscience, suggested lems in the brains of people with be due to glial cell dysfunction, The research provides scien- that the sensory motor controls schizophrenia. according to Steve Goldman, the tists with a foundation to explore in the cerebellum responsible for When the researchers trans- Dean Zutes Chair in Biology of new treatments for the disease. eye movement were impaired in planted human brain cells gener- the Aging Brain and codirector Because schizophrenia is unique subjects with autism. ated from individuals diagnosed of the Center for Translational to humans, scientists have been Thus, saccade adaptation mea- with childhood-onset schizophre- Neuromedicine, who was the lead limited in their ability to study it. sures may prove useful in early nia into mice, the animal’s nerve author of the study. The researchers developed a new detection of the disorder. cell networks did not mature “The inability of these animal model that can be used The research appears properly, and the mice exhibited cells to do their job, which is to accelerate testing drugs and in the European Journal of behaviors similar to those seen in to help nerve cells build and other therapies in schizophrenia. Neuroscience. people with the disease. maintain healthy and effective —Mark Michaud —Mark Michaud

Bacterial or Viral? Genes May Hold the Key Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, A team led by Ann Falsey, of pediatrics and biomedical we’re using genetic data to help but overuse is leading to one of professor and interim chief of the genetics, used genetic and us determine what’s affecting the the world’s most pressing health Infectious Diseases Division at statistical analysis to pinpoint 11 patient.” threats: antibiotic resistance. the Medical Center, is developing genetic markers in the blood that Falsey and Mariani plan to con- Antibiotics help fight bacterial a tool to help physicians identify correctly classified the patients tinue their research, noting that infections, but are not effective bacterial infections. with bacterial infections 80 to 90 the genetic classifiers selected against viruses. But because Falsey’s team conducted a percent of the time. from the study population may physicians have lacked a fool- battery of microbiologic tests on “Our genes react differently to not prove to be universal to all proof means to confirm bacterial blood samples from participants a virus than they do to bacteria,” patients. infections, they often prescribe who had been hospitalized with says Mariani. “Rather than trying The study appears in Scientific antibiotics, even though an infec- lower respiratory tract infections. to detect the specific organism Reports. tion may be viral. Thomas Mariani, a professor that’s making an individual sick, —Emily Boynton

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rr_Sept2017_InReview.indd 20 8/31/17 2:22 PM DISCOVER Sharpen Your Image—With Freeform Optics Researchers at the Institute of Optics have described an optical device with potential applications ranging from improved satellite and diagnostic imagery to more precisely matching the paint color on a living room wall. The device is a type of spectrometer—an optical instrument that takes light and breaks it down into components to reveal a catalog of information about an object. Unlike traditional spectrometers, this one is designed using freeform optics. A relatively new type of optical design, it replaces rotationally symmetrical, and often perfectly spherical, optical surfaces with “freeform” ones DECENTERED: Designed with freeform optics, Reimers’s prototype spectrometer is lighter, more compact, that rely on a more complicated and more efficient than traditional spectrometers. geometry. Freeform design enables a a PhD candidate in the lab of It also allows a three-fold the environment, help examine device to efficiently correct aber- Jannick Roland, the Brian J. increase in the bandwidths patients, and are broadly used for rations with fewer, smaller lenses Thompson Professor of Optical analyzed and is 65 times more many other applications. What and mirrors. Engineering—is five times more effective at correcting aberra- we found here can be applied to Described in Light: Science compact than similar spectrome- tions that affect field of view and spectrometers used in all of these & Applications, the device— ter designs using more conven- resolution. other applications,” says Rolland. designed by Jacob Reimers, tional mirrors. “Spectrometers monitor —Bob Marcotte

Of Mice and Milkshakes Not surprisingly, a fast-food diet the body responds by sending Working with scientists at the is no better for mice than for immune cells to neutralize Mayo Clinic and University of humans. But a drug developed the threat. Unfortunately, the Cincinnati, Gelbard fed mice the at the Medical Center protected immune response can rage out diet for six weeks. mice that were fed a fast-food of control, creating even more After five-and-a-half weeks diet from one of the diet’s many inflammation and further on the diet, half of the mice potential ills: nonalcoholic fatty damaging the liver. URMC- received URMC-099 and half liver disease. 099, which was developed received placebo. The mice In a study published in the in the laboratory of Harris given the drug had less journal JCI Insights, scientists (Handy) Gelbard, a pro- immune-related inflamma- reported that the drug, dubbed fessor of neurology and the tion and less liver injury “URMC-099,” reversed liver director of the Center for Neu- and fibrosis compared to inflammation, injury, and scarring rotherapeutics Discovery, dials placebo-treated mice and in mice. The mice had developed back the immune response to a didn’t experience any major the symptoms of fatty liver dis- normal level. side effects. Based on the ease after consuming a diet high “URMC-099 seems to break results, Gelbard, who origi- in fat, sugar, and cholesterol that this vicious cycle of persistent nally developed URMC-099 had been designed to replicate inflammation by restoring bal- to treat neurological dis- a fast-food diet and recreate the ance between immune cells and orders, is working toward features of the illness found in liver cells,” says Gelbard. “The early phase clinical trials people. drug’s ability to turn down the for the drug to treat Eating high volumes of fatty volume on the immune response nonalcoholic fatty liver and sugary foods triggers allows the liver to regain its disease. inflammation in the liver, and normal functions.” —Emily Boynton

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University Offers Gender-inclusive Housing Option The University is making the of all gender identities, as well as permitted mixed-gender groups option of gender-inclusive giving students greater flexibility to live together in on-campus housing assignments available to have roommates with whom suites and apartments. The new to sophomores, juniors, and they are most comfortable. option extends that option to seniors in the College. As of this The University joins more than double rooms and suite double fall, upper-class students can 200 colleges and universities in rooms on coed floors. Consistent choose to live in a double room the United States that offer gen- with other University housing or a double room in a suite with der-inclusive housing, including policies, students in a romantic someone of a different gender or Cornell University, Case Western relationship are discouraged gender expression. Reserve University, RIT, and SUNY from being roommates through The new policy is aimed at Geneseo. the option. fostering a residential experience The Office for Residential The policy does not apply to MUSIC LEADER: Waddell will that’s welcoming and supportive Life and Housing Services has first-year students. direct ensembles in the College. New Conductor Named Rachel Waddell is the new director of orchestral activities in the Department of Music. Previously the associate conductor of the Canton Symphony Orchestra, a professional regional orchestra in northeastern Ohio, and music director of the award-winning Canton Youth Symphonies, Waddell will conduct both the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, mentor the Chamber Ensembles, and teach the course The Symphony and the Conduc- tor. She holds a doctor of musical arts in orchestra conducting Eastman Jazz Sextet Makes Tokyo Festival Debut from the University of Nevada, MUSICAL TOUR: An ensemble from the Eastman School of Music represented the University for the first time Las Vegas, and has served on the at the Tokyo Jazz Festival late this summer. Under the sponsorship of the US Embassy in Japan, the Eastman faculty at Kent State University, Jazz Sextet—Ryder Eaton ’17E (bass), Luke Norris ’17E (saxophone), Christian Crawford ’17E (trumpet), Malone University, as well as Sterling Cozza ’18E (piano), graduate student Chase Ellison ’16E (drums), and C. J. Ziarniak ’17E (saxophone)— Nevada. performed a series of concerts. The ensemble is led by jazz professor Jeff Campbell ’92E (MM), ’02E (DMA).

Golisano Children’s Hospital Opens Two New Floors The Medical Center celebrated new areas on the fourth and sixth relocation of ICU and general provide patients with the most the opening of two new floors of floors include six new pediatric care pediatric beds and the addi- advanced surgical care.” Golisano Children’s Hospital this operating rooms in the William tion of new pediatric ICU beds. Fundraising for the construc- summer, a milestone that marked and Mildred Levine Pediatric “For the first time, we will tion is ongoing and has been the completion of the second Surgical Suite; new facilities in have operating rooms that are supported by numerous gifts, phase of construction on the new the Clay E. and Rita M. Buzzard designed specifically for the including a $2 million donation hospital building that opened in Pediatric Cardiac Cath Lab Suite; complex needs of children,” says from Rita Buzzard in honor of 2015. a gastroenterology surgical pro- Walter Pegoli, the Joseph M. her late husband, Clay, and a The $45 million endeavor adds cedure suite, and 23 new private Lobozzo II Professor and chief $750,000 pledge from Andy to the hospital’s position as one pre-op and post-op recovery of pediatric surgery. “The larger, McDermott and Rob Burch, of the top surgical and complex rooms. modern facilities will give us the creators of the Fairport Music care facilities in the nation. The The work also included the space and resources we need to Festival.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 22 8/30/17 10:30 PM IN BRIEF Experiment by East High School Students Orbits the Earth A project designed by East High Partnership Organization estab- School students went into orbit lished in July 2015, the Univer- this summer. sity has assumed management As part of NASA’s Student responsibilities for East, a Roch- Spaceflight Experiments ester city school that includes Program, students De’aunte grades 6 through 12. Johnson, Binti Mohamed, and “Everything that we’re trying Tailor Davis in August watched to do here at East under the from Rochester as their project University of Rochester part- was rocketed to the International nership, in terms of turning the Space Station. school around, is all research Working with Mary Courtney, a based,” says Courtney, “I think chemistry teacher and space- when you take a science project flight experiments community like this and show kids how it EXPERIMENTAL SPACE: An experiment designed by East High School project director at East, the three can have real-world applications students was selected to go aboard the International Space Station. designed an experiment to test and involve them and really how quickly chlorophyll degrades case phytoplankton, are able to and Canada selected to have immerse them, it really builds on in microgravity conditions. survive in space without sunlight their science experiments aboard everything that we’re trying to do Students ultimately hope to or gravity. East was one of only 21 the space station. and it reinforces the whole U of R learn how organisms, in this schools across the United States As part of an Educational research philosophy.”

GLO BAL GATHERING: For the second time in two years, International Baccalaureate students from around the world convened at Rochester. University Hosts International Baccalaureate Conference More than 200 high school university in the Northeast to the University’s vice provost for The University also hosted the students from around the globe offer scholarships to students enrollment initiatives and dean of world conference in 2015. This gathered on the River Campus with International Baccalaureate, admissions and financial aid. “It’s summer, students came from this summer for the sixth annual or IB, diplomas, and about 10 one that requires them to choose nations such as Cambodia, China, International Baccalaureate percent of incoming students a few subjects they love most and Egypt, Mozambique, and New World Student Conference. each year come from IB schools. immerse themselves in them to Zealand, and states as far away The University has long had a “Like Rochester on the high levels of mastery.” as Oregon, Texas, and Idaho. special relationship to the Inter- college level, the International International Baccalaure- Through a broad spec- national Baccalaureate program, Baccalaureate program has ate started with one school in trum of speakers and classes, a rigorous precollege educational for 50 years led students in an Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968 and the students explored the system emphasizing critical innovative approach to curric- today is offered in more than theme “Defining and Defying thinking. Rochester was the first ulum,” says Jonathan Burdick, 3,400 schools in 150 nations. Boundaries.”

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SCOUTING REPORT What’s the Outlook for the Yellowjackets? Rochester’s fall varsity sports teams are looking forward to successful campaigns in 2017. B y Dennis O’Donnell Women’s Cross Country: Rochester ’18, and backfielders Courtney Dunham ’19, has appeared in the NCAA championship Samantha Dow ’18, and Colleen Maillie ’20. Men’s Cross Country: The team returns a meet for three straight years—finishing In midfield, look for Olivia Denny ’18 and good nucleus of Yellowjackets who ran in 14th as a team in 2015 and qualifying indi- Miranda Lakis ’19. the UAA and NCAA regional champion- vidual competitors in 2014 and 2016. Will Football: As the 2016 quarterback, Dan ships in 2016: Ivan Frantz ’20, Benjamin it be four straight in 2017? The team is led Bronson ’18 led an offense that generated al- Martell ’19, Hunter Phinney ’19, and Nate by four returnees from last year’s region- most 380 yards per game. He’s a wideout in Conroy ’18. Frantz was the team’s top run- al squad: Rachel Bargabos ’19, Ayumi Yu- 2017. Emanuel Calmar ’19 ran for five touch- ner at the 2016 regionals, finishing 66th asa ’18, Ariane Hasbrouck ’19, and Clara downs. Bronson and punter Paul Mokrzy- overall, and Martell finished in the No. 2 Wolfe ’18. cki ’20 made the All–Liberty League team. spot both at UAA and regionals. Field Hockey: With back-to-back 18- Ricky Sparks ’18 and Josh Churchin ’18 win seasons, Rochester has established were among the tackle leaders. LOOKING FOR A FOURTH? Rachel Bargabos itself as a contender. Aiming for a third Golf: Rochester won the Liberty League will help lead the women’s cross country straight NCAA playoff bid, the Yellowjack- title and advanced to the NCAAs last year. team this fall. The squad is looking to make ets return with top scorers Claire Dicker- All-Region golfers Jack Mulligan ’20 and a fourth straight appearance at the NCAA son ’18 and Maya Haigis ’20, goaltenders Jason Paek ’18 lead the way this year. Both championship meet. Gabrielle Cantley ’18 and Kiran Sundaram were first team All–Liberty League, and

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SQUAD SUCCESS: All–UAA honorees Sydney Melton and Clara Martinez return to help anchor soccer and volleyball. Mulligan was the league’s Ikeda ’19, Aleks Dombrowski ’18, Alex Di The veterans include All–UAA honorees Rookie of the Year. Corey Perna ’18, Geoffrey Rouin ’18, and Mitch McKenzie Runyan ’19, Megan Runyan ’19, Mitchener eyes a return to the Volis ’20 all returning. and defender Sydney Melton ’18. Three vets lineup, and five first-year stu- Women’s Soccer: Rochester beat two return in goal: Madilynne Lee ’18, Saman- dents look to make an immedi- Final Four teams last year, including the tha Hlavac ’19, and Gwen Haffenden ’20. ate impact. eventual NCAA champion. Eight start- Men’s Tennis: The Yellowjackets were Rowing: At the state ers are back for a team that held ranked No. 18 regionally in the spring. Ma- championships last spring, 12 of 18 foes to a goal or less. saru Fujimaki ’19, Aaron Mevorach ’18, Jun Rochester produced solid Yuminaga ’18, and Andrew Nunno ’18 head performances in the varsi- up the returnees. Rochester will play at the ty 4+, open 4+, and novice St. Lawrence Fall Classic and at the ITA 8+. That may bode well for 2017–18. In Regionals at Skidmore this fall. the fall, Rochester will compete in the Women’s Tennis: Rochester has Challenge on the Canal, the Head two All-UAA honorees returning to a of the Genesee, and either the lineup that was ranked 33rd nationally. Head of the Schuylkill (Phila- Leaders include Sravya Gudipudi ’20 and delphia) or Head of the Fish Camila Garcia ’19, who was ranked No. 24 (Saratoga Springs). in the Northeast regional singles rank- Men’s Soccer: With plen- ings. Rochester will play in three ty of experience in the soccer fall tournaments, highlighted by ranks, defense remains a strength. the ITA Regionals at Skidmore Last year, Rochester posted six shutouts in late September. and held five teams to one goal in a season Women’s Volleyball: that included the team’s 17th NCAA play- Rochester looks to build on off appearance, its 10th in the last 12 years. last year’s success behind Clara Lasha Alkhazishvili ’19, Zach Lawlor ’20, Martinez ’20, an All-Region and and Lucas Loecher ’19 return to anchor a a first team All–UAA honoree. seasoned group at the back. On attack, the Courtney Vidovich ’19 led the UAA goals will come by committee with Bryce in aces per set. Rochester’s balance will help in the offense: Alara Kocak FACTOR IN FOOTBALL: Dan Bronson takes ’19, Beth Ghyzel ’20, and Alexandra Nel- his skills to wide receiver this year. At ligan ’18 all return.r quarterback in 2016, he passed for 1,523 yards and 12 TDs plus ran for 668 yards and five Dennis O’Donnell is director of athletic touchdowns. communications.

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friendsPaired in a random room assignment three decades ago, two graduates find a common bond as entrepreneurs and lifelong friends.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 26 8/30/17 10:30 PM n a Tuesday afternoon in 1983, then freshman FOREVER CONNECTED: First honing their business skills as Jodi Parker was looking out her window in students, Karen Price Pavlicin-Fragnito ’87 (top) and Jodi Susan B. Anthony Hall. She was waiting for Parker Seidner ’87, ’91S (MBA) (bottom, with husband, Jacob her roommate, then Karen Price, to walk up Seidner ’87) sold T-shirts printed with the phrase “Forever the path to the dorm. YoURs.” First introduced in Susan B. Anthony Hall in 1983, the two were roommates through all four years of college Having just met that fall, the two first-year and have remained friends, encouraging each other in their students had already developed an import- entrepreneurial endeavors. ant ritual. Every Tuesday, cookies made by Price’s grandmother arrived in the mail. The brown-paper package tied with a string con- tained snickerdoodles, or chocolate chip cookies, or peanut butter cookies— cookies that Parker always thought “tasted like love from home.” OAs the two shared each week’s shipment, they talked. It was a simple way for the two of them to get to know one another, to look beyond their different habits, viewpoints, and academic interests. Outwardly, they seemed to have little in common. An English major, Price grew up in a small, scenic village in upstate New York, where she honed a love for writing, volleyball, and homegrown vegetables; an optical engineering major, Parker grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-most-populous city in New England, and brought to campus a passion for math, science, and Chinese takeout. Yet they felt a connection, a friendship that developed through their common ground as students, their commitments to family, and the excitement of new opportunities to test their entrepreneurial instincts. The ties lasted through all four years as roommates on the River Campus, marriages to college sweethearts—Price married Robert Pavlicin ’87 and Parker married Jacob Seidner ’87—parenthood, early careers in the business world, and entrepreneurs running their own successful businesses. They’ve celebrated, mourned, and achieved together. In short, the two—now known as Karen Pavlicin-Fragnito ’87 and Jodi Se- idner ’87, ’91S (MBA)—became lifelong friends. “We have this sixth sense about each other,” says Pavlicin-Fragnito. “If one of us has something going on, all of a sudden the other is on the phone and saying, ‘I’m thinking of you and thought I should call.’ ” This fall, the two friends will return to Rochester for their 30th reunion. And while the reunion is a chance to formally reacquaint themselves with campus, for the two classmates, the spirit of Rochester is never far away. Forever Entrepreneurs Both are now full-time entrepreneurs running profitable businesses. Pavlicin-Fragnito, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, owns Elva Resa Pub- lishing, an independent publishing company that’s home to three imprints— one geared toward military families, one for general interest children’s books, and one for inspirational works. With more than 70 writers and illustrators, the company’s namesake imprint Elva Resa is the leading publisher in the United States specializing in military family life. The titles in her online store, MilitaryFamilyBooks.com, range from those by self-published authors like Alia Blau Reese ’95 to those published by industry giants Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Random House, and others. In Connecticut, Seidner runs Sweet Seidner’s Bake Shop, an online bakery that ships homemade cookies and baked treats to students at more than 75 colleges, universities, boarding schools, and graduate schools. “We’re always bouncing ideas off each other and tapping into each other’s experiences,” says Seidner. The entrepreneurs first whetted their appetite for business as juniors at Rochester. In the spring of 1986, prompted by surveys that indicated some prospective students thought Rochester was a public institution, the University commissioned a study to explore whether the name—“University of Rochester”—should be changed.

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rr_Sept2017_Reunion.indd 27 8/31/17 5:18 PM After President G. Dennis O’Brien announced the name would re- SWEET SUCCESS: After working in brand management for a decade, main intact, the University’s public relations department made com- Seidner left the corporate world and eventually started her own business, memorative buttons, emblazoned with the words “Forever YoURs.” Sweet Seidner’s Bake Shop. The online bakery specializes in sending Demand for the buttons was overwhelming. homemade treats to college students, an idea sparked when she was Walking across campus, Pavlicin-Fragnito overheard a classmate roommates with Pavlicin-Fragnito during her first year at Rochester. lament, “It’s too bad they didn’t put the logo on T-shirts.” That gave the women an idea. Pavlicin-Fragnito asked permission A Taste for Business to make and sell T-shirts. She returned with the news that the Uni- versity had said yes. Their current entrepreneurial success did not come immediately. After asking their parents to help with financing the project, each Starting her career as an engineer in military defense, Seidner real- received $750. They researched screen-printing options and costs, ized it wasn’t for her. and secured the OK to sell the shirts outside the dining center (using While saving money for graduate school, she worked catering jobs, a table on loan from the University). including an Inauguration Ball for George H. W. Bush, and took bak- The response was swift. Eighty percent of the initial 500 shirts ing and cake-decorating classes. sold in the first two weeks. “These experiences rejuvenated me,” Seidner says. She returned to The women reimbursed their parents and, having turned a prof- Rochester to attend the Simon Business School, earning an MBA in it so quickly, realized they had a knack for identifying what people marketing and finance. She spent the next 10 years managing brands want—and providing it for them. for Unilever, Tetley, and BIC, honing her business expertise. “Selling the Forever YoURs shirts was our first real entrepreneurial Her perspective on corporate life changed on September 11, 2001. venture,” says Seidner. “It planted a seed in each of us that validated “I was on my way to LaGuardia Airport for a business trip. I was our business acumen and gave us confidence to pursue new ventures.” five months pregnant with my son, Josh,” she says. “I was on the

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 28 8/30/17 10:30 PM BEST SELLING: Since launching her company Elva Resa, Pavlicin-Fragnito positive responses confirmed her new business focus: homemade has grown it into the leading publisher of books and resources for military treats for college students. families. She began the venture when she was married to her late husband, Seidner sent Pavlicin-Fragnito boxes of cookies to see how they Robert Pavlicin ’87, who was a Marine. For the wedding, she asked Seidner traveled and tasted, then sought her friend’s advice on potential busi- and other friends and family members to make squares (below) for a quilt. ness names and e-commerce platforms. After two years in business, Sweet Seidner’s Bake Shop offers a va- Whitestone Bridge on that beautiful, sunny day when the second World riety of cookies, brownies, macaroons, and traditional Jewish treats Trade Center tower was hit. I decided to turn around and go home.” like hamantaschen, rugelach, and babka. As the business has grown, When it came time for Seidner to return to work after maternity Seidner transformed her home’s basement into a commercial kosher leave, she realized she didn’t want to travel. She retired from corpo- kitchen to keep up with demand. rate life two weeks later. As a stay-at-home mom, she started, grew, and sold part-time businesses, including a bridal gown partnership. When her daughter, Mollie, left for college, Seidner followed her passion for baking. Remembering her shared-cookie experience at Rochester, she gave her niece a special gift: she baked and sent her cookies every month of her freshman year. “My niece had never been away from home, so I wanted to help her meet people,” Seidner says. “She could walk down the dorm hall- way and say, ‘Do you want a cookie?’ What college student doesn’t want a cookie?” Two years later, Seidner did the same for another niece. The

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 29 8/30/17 10:30 PM MELIORA WEEKEND 2017 Ready for Reunion? Both Karen Pavlicin-Fragnito ’87 and Jodi Seidner ’87, ’91S (MBA) are helping organize this fall’s 30th reunion for the Class of 1987. A key part of Meliora Weekend, October 12 to 15, the celebration is an opportunity to discover what the years have brought for the campus and former classmates. “I’m looking forward to seeing what’s changed, to reconnecting with people,” Seidner says. “You never know what possibilities that holds for you.” While all graduates are invited to join Meliora Weekend festivities, many of the class-specific activities are based in reunion classes. Organized by five-year increments— this fall is the 2’s and the 7’s—reunion has evolved from a simple celebration of nostalgia, says Paul Lanzone ’03, assistant vice president for alumni relations and constituent engagement. The activities are designed as a way for classmates to build ties and networks not only with one another, but also with other alumni and with current students. Reunion is an important way to see how the University and its programs are continually moving forward and to be involved in what that means for each generation. “Our campuses have changed visibly over the years, and coming back is a very tangible way to stay engaged,” he says. “You definitely get the sense that the University has moved into the future, but there’s still this tradition of research and education. There are so many palpable sensory experiences that bring back what those four years were all about.” Jane Zimelis Cohen ’67, one of three chairs organizing her 50th class reunion and a vice chair of the newly formed National Alumni Board, has attended every reunion since 2000—except in 2014, the weekend her son got married. Highlights of this year’s program, notes Cohen, include a class dinner performance by the YellowJackets—joined FAMILY FOCUS: Shortly after her son, Josh, was born, Seidner began to focus on her by past YellowJackets members from the classes of ’67 and own business ideas, launching her bakery after her daughter, Mollie, left for college. ’66 and some past Tritones members—and an interfaith She and her husband, Jacob Seidner ’87, met at Rochester. memorial service organized by a representation of diverse clergy who graduated in ’67. The Bonds of Friendship Cohen met her husband, Lawrence Cohen ’66, at the University. The pair established the Lawrence J. Cohen During their first year on campus, mutual friends set up Seidner and ’66 and Jane Zimelis Cohen ’67 Endowed Undergraduate Pavlicin-Fragnito with blind dates to the NROTC ball. Seidner and her date, Scholarship Fund in 2004. Bob Pavlicin, didn’t hit it off that night, but remained friends. Reunion is “mostly about the people, but it’s also about During their junior year, Bob and Karen started dating. In preparation for being able to touch base with the physical place where their wedding in 1991, Karen sent a letter to close friends and family members I really became the person that I am,” she says. “The asking for decorated fabric squares that she could stitch together to make a University has continued to give me opportunities to lead, wedding quilt. to be enriched, and to interact with fascinating, intelligent Recalling that she had a few leftover “Forever YoURs” shirts, Seidner dug people. It’s a big part of my volunteer life.” one out and cut a square around the logo. She painted flowers into the design For Alan Carmasin ’67, another reunion organizer and a to represent a phrase the two roommates used to encourage each other during retired senior associate director for University Advancement, tough times: “Think of flowers.” it’s heartwarming to catch up with former fraternity brothers. Very tough times came a decade later for the Pavlicins. When their son, Al- He also looks forward to creating new associations: exander, was 18 months old, Bob was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer. “I make new friends that I didn’t know in school, but who I Though he was given a prognosis of less than a year, he survived two years see at every reunion now. Some of them I stay in touch with.” before passing away in February 2003. —Robin L. Flanigan “Initially I told Karen that I could not attend the memorial service in Min- nesota,” says Seidner. “I had not been on a plane since 9-11. I was too scared For more about Meliora Weekend: Rochester.edu/ to fly and too embarrassed to admit it.” Without telling Karen she was coming melioraweekend. (just in case she couldn’t do it), she made the trip to Minnesota.

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rr_Sept2017_Reunion.indd 30 8/31/17 2:23 PM She wrote her first children’s novel, Perch, Mrs. Sackets, and Crow’s Nest. The story about a young boy who finds the courage to face the changes in his life won several awards, including a Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Gold Medal for middle-grade fiction. She also turned to songwriting. “The songs I wrote during that time helped me sort through my grief and find faith to go on celebrating life,” she says. With encouragement from Seidner and others, she released a 12-song CD, Little Bit of Faith, and has donated the profits to cancer research. (She also created the Andermax Foundation. Seidner serves on the board of the foundation, which awarded its first grant from the Fightin’ Bob Fund to the Universi- ty’s James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute.) Even now, “I still receive notes from people who share how the songs are helping them through their grief,” she says. This year, Pavlicin-Fragnito’s publishing company celebrated 20 years in business. Pavlicin-Fragnito married Geno Fragnito in 2011 and gained two stepdaughters, Ciana and Malaina. Geno plans to join Karen for Meliora Weekend in October. A Lifelong Legacy With two of their children in college—Mol- lie Seidner is a sophomore studying biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis; Alexander Pavlicin is a member of Rochester’s Class of 2021, planning to dual major in engineering science and interna- CONTINUING THE TRADITION: Pavlicin-Fragnito’s son, Alexander, moved into Tiernan Hall late this summer as a member of the Class of 2021, planning to double major in engineering science and tional relations in a program that will allow international relations. him to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees— the women have been taking stock of the “I am eternally grateful I was able to get on that plane,” Seidner ways in which new traditions are built. says. “The look on Karen’s face when she saw me come through the One of those has origins in a spider plant that Bob purchased from door at the memorial chapel almost brought me to my knees. We Pavlicin-Fragnito during a volleyball team fundraiser their senior hugged for a very long time.” year. “Over the years, we’ve shared little offshoots with friends and Two years later, Pavlicin-Fragnito’s dad died suddenly of a heart neighbors when we moved, or they moved, so that mama plant has attack. About the same time, the corporation she worked for re- babies all over the country,” she says. structured, so she took the opportunity to leave the corporate world. As her son prepared this summer for the move into Tiernan Hall, “As a single mom, I wanted a flexible schedule that allowed me to the same dorm where his father had spent his freshman year, he asked be there for Alexander and that also used my talents and passions in if he could have one of the offshoots. meaningful ways,” she says. She gave her publishing company, which Alexander’s spider plant made the trip with him to Rochester, had been a part-time venture, new attention. where he hopes to establish his own legacy of the kind that he’s seen The first book she wrote for military families, Surviving Deploy- grow in the lifelong friendships and connections in his family. ment, had been published weeks after Bob’s death, and forms the “Jodi’s mom once said, ‘I love that you two never run out of things foundation of Elva Resa’s portfolio of resources on military life. to talk about,’” says Pavlicin-Fragnito. “We both give a tremen- She also advocates for military families in Washington, D.C., and dous amount of love, time, and commitment to each other and our works with nonprofits, military units, chaplains, and school teachers friendship. around the world to support military families. “We are ever grateful for that initial random roommate “When Bob was sick and after his death, Marines came from all assignment.”r over to support us—and they still do,” she says. “This is just one way I can repay that kindness.” Robin L. Flanigan, a Rochester-based freelance writer, contributed to As she left the corporate world, she focused on her own writing. this story.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 32 8/30/17 10:30 PM Tapping into the global community of Rochester’s alumni, Alumni Relations looks to expand and deepen the connections that graduates have with the University and with one another.

Interview by Scott Hauser

In many ways Paul Lanzone ’03 was the quintessential Rochester student. A talented musician, the California native first became interested in the Eastman School of Music. But the more he discovered about the University, the more interested he became. Though he decided during his college search not to pursue a life of music performance, he remained committed to the University, drawn by the Rochester Curriculum and the idea that he could largely map out an academic path that aligned with his interests. “I just thought it sounded really unique and intrigu- ing,” Lanzone says. “I still liked the ties to Eastman because I wanted to maintain the music aspect.” Now the assistant vice president for alumni relations at the University, Lanzone says his journey to Rochester and the ways in which the University have influenced his

LISTENING TO ALUMNI: “It’s incredibly important in everything that we’re doing that the alumni voice is represented, that alumni are active partners, and feel a sense of ownership,” says Lanzone.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 33 8/30/17 10:30 PM POWERFUL PARTNERS: As part of efforts to build a stronger establish a strong infrastructure for alumni to connect with the University and sense of partnership with alumni and other constituencies, with one another. Lanzone has led efforts to organize a national alumni Over the past 15 months, he’s worked to put together a new strategic plan and advisory board and to enhance regional alumni networks. a national advisory board of alumni. He’s also taken a hard look at the way alumni relations has traditionally operated. life and career have stayed with him. The goal, he says, is to build a “culture of partnership” between alumni and “In my first year, I took a class on mysticism and poet- the institution. ry. I had no idea what I was getting into. The professor was fascinating, and the content was just really interest- Have you identified any particular priorities during your first year or so? ing. So the next semester, I took another religion course, When I came in last May, one of the first things I wanted to do was to look at all and another, and eventually realized that I was passionate of our programs. What were we doing? What is the core work that we should be about these studies. I declared my major in the religion doing? How are we going to measure success? What are we going to prioritize department sophomore year.” over the next several years? I have been working to build that with our team and More than a decade later, Lanzone’s enthusiasm with many internal and external stakeholders. remains. A big priority in the alumni relations strategic plan is, how do we engage vol- “I really believe in the University. I believe it is a very unteers effectively and offer a high-quality experience across the board? We’re special place. I have my personal experiences with it, such a large organization, and with so many different people working with alum- but I have the great fortune now to travel the world ni volunteers—how do we make sure we’re handling those relationships in the and see the Meliora spirit in action throughout our stu- best way for everyone? dent and alumni communities. It’s a remarkable institution that provides amazing education and formation of How do you plan to tap into the alumni perspective on engagement with individuals.” the University? Since May 2016, Lanzone’s role has been not only to For the past year, we have been putting together an alumni board. We’re still share that appreciation for the institution, but also to recruiting, but we hope to have about 30 people by next year. We’re being very build on the engagement that exists among alumni and purposeful in the formation of the board to make sure that we have diverse

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 34 8/30/17 10:30 PM “I really believe in the University. I believe it is a very special place. I have my personal experiences with it, but I have the great fortune now to travel the world and see the Meliora spirit in action throughout our student and alumni communities. It’s a remarkable institution that provides amazing education and formation of individuals.”

representation by school, geography, class Rochester Regional Networks year, industry, race, ethnicity, and gender Alumni Relations has begun developing a series of regional networks to better focus identity. activities, programs, and opportunities for alumni and for others who have a connec- The board will also represent all of our core tion to the University to volunteer, network, and stay connected. Open to all alumni, volunteer groups, making sure that our other parents, donors, and students in each region, the networks are part of a strategic plan- alumni programs, like the Diversity Adviso- ning effort to build a stronger sense of connection among Rochester’s key constituent ry Council, class programs, the regional net- groups. For more information, visit Rochester.edu/alumni/regional-network. work leadership cabinets, the school alumni councils, are part of an overarching strategy. We have recruited an executive committee—three amazing representatives of the alumni population—who are very excited to help to lead this kind of strategic advisory Rochester Boston group. Carol Karp ’74, a University trustee, is the chair. The vice chairs are Jane Zimelis New York City San Francisco Philadelphia Cohen ’67 and Drew Mittelman ’68, both of Chicago whom have been very active in alumni and Washington, D.C. volunteer circles. It will be the role of the Los Angeles board to make sure that we continue to have broad representation and viewpoint.

How do you balance your work in engaging alumni with the overall advancement goal Houston of raising philanthropic support? Alumni Relations is a unit within the Office of Advancement. Advancement’s goal is to work with our various constituents and partners to support and advance the University, through philan- our programs and activities can play out. We have designated a staff person for thropy, volunteerism, events, and personal connections. each major region to convene our volunteers in the area and to come up with Alumni Relations is a really critical part of the overall annual plans for each region. Advancement strategic plan. Chief Advancement Offi- What events should we be doing? What’s working in the region and what’s not? cer Tom Farrell ’88, ’90W (MS) has developed the plan, Do we need more admissions recruiters in a particular area? Or, are there better called the Rochester Model. Balancing engagement with companies we can tap into for internships and job opportunities for students? philanthropy is a cornerstone of that plan. And making sure that we’re involving alumni leaders in that conversation and We know that when a University has a strong, con- they feel that alumni can own their Rochester network. nected alumni community, the institution and the alum- Other priorities include class-based activities, beyond milestone reunions. And ni community benefit in a number of ways. You certainly we’re building newer programs to focus on diversity and inclusion efforts, alumni see that in philanthropic support, but you also see it in career services, and helping student groups stay in touch with alumni over time. internships and job placement for students. You see it in the institution’s reputation nationally and internationally. Why did you want to lead in this way? It’s a self-fulfilling cycle: if you have alumni who As an alumnus, as someone who’s been in the industry for a number of years, I feel good about the University and stay connected, you have long been intrigued by the potential for Rochester. When I saw the Roch- see a positive impact on the University and its alumni ester Model plan and learned about Tom’s vision and the support he has from community. President Seligman and the Board of Trustees, it was exactly what I had wanted for the University. I thought it sounded exciting, and I knew it was time for What will alumni see as the plan rolls out? me to be part of it. As it became clear that we needed to better align our vol- We, as the University, know that we can and should better engage and sup- unteer and alumni voices into our decision making, one port our alumni community. And we have been working very thoughtfully on area that we began focusing on is building and strength- how to do that. ening our regional network. We think that our regional It’s incredibly important in everything that we’re doing that alumni are active strategy is really going to be the foundation of our alumni partners and feel a sense of ownership—and that, at a very strategic, high level, relations work, providing an infrastructure where all of the alumni voice is being represented.r

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Summer is prime time for undergraduates to dive into research on the River Campus.

hat’s true for faculty members and graduate students can also be true for undergraduates: summertime is prime time for research. During the “quiet” months of June, July, and August, the River Campus is home not only to Rochester students pursuing special projects, but also to undergraduates from universities across the country who take advantage of the resources of a tier-one research university that places a high priority on affording research opportunities to undergraduates. Working alongside faculty helps students hone problem-solving skills in a way that regular coursework may not. Unlike solving a homework problem to which the answer is known, or reporting on a question or topic that’s already been well studied, research is “the process of creating new knowl- edge, of finding solutions where none are known,” says Wendi Heinzelman, dean of the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. “That’s a very different skill from what you get in the classroom,” but one that’s critical to almost any career path. Myriad programs support summer research for undergraduates. Several of these programs fall under the umbrella of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) initiative. REUs are designed and carried out by faculty, and funded by the foundation. Several students participate in programs of the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity that help prepare low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented minority undergraduates for graduate school. In addition to the field-specific experience they gained, summer researchers also learned firsthand what research entails—and whether it’s a career they want to pursue. “You can spend a lot of hours trying to figure things out,” says Graham Palmer, a computer science major from the University of Michigan who took part in an REU. “You begin to wonder if you’re being productive. On the other hand, you are able to decide your own path.” Joy Nicholas ’19, a health, behavior, and society major from Washington, D.C., got a comprehensive research experience, thanks to mentors Ann Dozier, a professor and chair of public health sciences at the Medical Center, and Holly Widanka, a senior health project coordinator in the department. To help answer the question of whether race and ethnicity is associated with suboptimal infant feeding practices, Nicholas did everything from stuffing survey envelopes to analyzing collected data. Her findings? “Hearing about research and actually doing it is completely different,” she says. “You learn so much by being involved in different aspects of it. I really liked it. I can see myself doing this.”r

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 36 8/30/17 10:30 PM ARTS Exploring Public Art As a Take Five Scholar, Madison Carter ’18 is taking a close look at how public art—such as murals, sculptures, even performance art—influences social interactions in the city of Rochester. This summer, the English literature and environmental studies double major from Rochester interned with Richard Margolis, a well-known area photographer who documents art, architecture, and landmarks, and then compiles his photos into searchable databases. Carter contributed to the descriptions of each piece of public art, researching the stories associated with their creation, and contacting the artists themselves for their input. She also identified additional works of public art to include in the database. —Sofia Tokar

GREETINGS: Carter, posing before a community mural that adorns the side of Park Avenue restaurant Hogan’s Hideaway, researches and documents public art in the city as part of a larger online project directed by photographer Richard Margolis. The searchable public art database is at Rochesterlandmarks. com.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 37 8/30/17 10:30 PM ANTHROPOLOGY Immersive Research “To appreciate the meaning of humanity, it’s necessary to take all people into account,” says Daniel Reichman, an associate professor of anthropology. “And we begin to understand different cultures when we immerse ourselves in their respective communities.” For the past 15 years, the University has offered students the Malawi Immersion Seminar—a three-week research experience in Gowa, a remote village in the southeastern African nation, in which students carry out individual projects, living and working among the community members. The program is the brainchild of Joe Lanning ’00, ’07 (MA). When Lanning was an undergraduate majoring in anthropology, his professors encouraged him to go abroad. He heeded that advice and, in his junior year, went to Kenya for a four-month experien- “TEACHERS ALL tial learning program that involved homestays AROUND”: Students in in urban and rural areas. That experience the Malawi Immersion inspired him to join the Peace Corps follow- Seminar get a taste of ing graduation, where he served two years in anthropological field Malawi. One participant this summer, Rachel Ellison ’18 researched breastfeed- research—in which instruction, both “The Malawi Immersion Seminar is ing practices in Gowa and the cultural influences on those practices. formal and informal, a marriage of my experiences in Kenya, Megan Runkle ’18, a Take Five Scholar, studied food—specifically the comes from locals. U of R’s anthropology department, and the varying ways people in Malawi think about food, as compared to the ways Peace Corps,” says Lanning, who completed his people do in the United States. PhD in anthropology at the University of Georgia. “And it fulfills the Corps’ “I haven’t traveled outside the country very much,” Runkle said prior principle of bringing the culture of your host country back to the states.” to her summer research experience. But “learning about things from a It also serves Rochester’s educational mission, which emphasizes both different perspective,” she anticipated, “will be helpful on any career path global outreach and hands-on research. I choose.” “The students are there to be trained in anthropological research Lanning concurs. “The lessons from the immersion program can be methods and to learn about a different culture,” says Lanning, who applied in their schools, neighborhoods, and travels,” he says. “Learning has traveled with the students to Gowa every year since the program’s about different cultures has value, whether it involves someone across inception. There are formal instructors, such as Geoffrey Mlongoti, a the street or halfway around the world.” —Peter Iglinski self-trained engineer and native Malawian, who assists with community mapping, coordinates homestays and other logistics, and helps students Read more about the participants in last summer’s Malawi with their research. But, as Lanning adds, “Their teachers are the Malawi- Immersion Seminar on the 2017 Malawi Immersion Seminar blog at ans all around them.” https://malawiimmersion2017.wordpress.com.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 38 8/30/17 10:30 PM AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES One Question Led to Another Growing up as a young black man in the Bronx, Winston Scott ’19 says he didn’t think a lot about racism. But there was one instance he recalls that mystified him at the time it occurred and stayed with him long after. He was riding on a bus when a woman boarded, approached the empty seat next to him, hesitated, and chose another seat. Scott didn’t realize the potential significance of that encounter until a class in African-American studies at Rochester opened his eyes to dimen- sions of racism in the United States that have famously played out on buses, as well as in other public spaces. NOTICING RACE: His experience generated some questions. Scott (right, center) What happens when African-American children asks what happens start to perceive racism directed toward them? when black children How do the children react? And more specifi- discover racism—and cally, why does racism play a part in motivating learns, with help from Guiffrida and Tetenov, some students to go on to college, while it how to design a study seems to deter others? “from the ground up.” Scott, a double major in African-American studies and anthropology, started taking a closer look this summer through a research project he designed under the supervision of Doug Guiffrida, an associate professor of counseling and human development at the Warner School. Scott’s research is not part of an ongoing faculty project. Rather, Guif- coding the parts that “basically correlate to what you are looking for, frida says, he’s helping the research newcomer “develop his project from figuring out what does or does not make sense for the study.” the ground up.” While many scholars have explored the relationship between racial He started by teaching Scott to review the existing literature in the identities and educational outcomes, Scott is contributing his own quali- field to identify how his study could make a fresh contribution. He also tative research to the overall body of work. “It will include the students’ arranged for Scott to work with PhD student Serina Tetenov on tran- perspectives,” Guiffrida says, “not just from a survey, but from interviews scribing and coding an interview she conducted for her dissertation on with college freshmen and sophomores about their experiences when nonverbal communication in clinical observation. they first realized there was racism directed at them.” “It was rough in the beginning to take an hour-long recording and Scott ended the summer with a formal proposal for the project. actually type everything verbatim,” Scott says. But the most illuminating Says Guiffrida: “I think it’s going to be an interesting study.” part of the exercise, he adds, was going back over the transcript and —Bob Marcotte

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH Glass Act Tianhao Yu ’19, a chemical engineering major from Fushun, China, spent the summer in the lab of chemistry professor Lewis Rothberg studying and testing materials for OLED—organic light-emitting diode—displays. Rothberg and Yu’s efforts expand on the work of Ching Tang, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, who created the first efficient OLEDs in 1987 while at the Eastman Kodak Company. OLED screen displays provide a crisper picture than most LCD (liquid crystal display) screens, and the research may help improve the screen displays of devices such as cell phones and televisions. A SHARPER DISPLAY: The proprietary OLED materials Yu tested Yu (left) assists were developed by the Rochester–based professor of chemistry Rothberg on research company Molecular Glasses. The company is to help a Rochester- developing materials to address two current based company technology challenges: making OLEDs that emit improve its OLED blue light more efficiently and increasing the display technology. lifetime of the devices that use blue emitters. “It’s tough to make a blue OLED that lasts a long time while retaining the efficiency,” Rothberg says. But Yu is up for the challenge. “Physical chemistry has a lot of industry applications. It’s exciting to be able to work in a lab, especially as an undergrad, and know what ‘real’ chemists do, and also be on the cutting edge of these new technologies.” —Lindsey Valich

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 39 8/30/17 10:30 PM MUSIC, DATA SCIENCE & ENGINEERING What We Learn When a Machine ‘Listens’ to Miles Davis Neither Jake Altabef nor Graham Palmer is a student at the University. course of all those re-masters? Is the song “brighter” in some formats Altabef is a junior in computer systems engineering at Rensselaer than others? Is there less background “noise” on disc than on vinyl? Polytechnic Institute, and Palmer is a senior in computer science at the Altabef and Palmer were able to capitalize on some of the University’s University of Michigan. core strengths—in music and data science research as well as in But both students spent the summer on the River Campus as partici- multidisciplinary research opportunities for undergraduates. pants in a National Science Foundation–funded Research Experience for They worked alongside two mentors from different, but Undergraduates, or REU, program called Computational Methods for related, disciplines: Darren Mueller, an assistant professor Understanding Music, Media, and Minds. of musicology at the Eastman School of Music and an AUDIO-FILES: Visiting For eight weeks, they studied a expert on cultural aspects of music, and Steven Roessner, students Altabef recording that was first released nearly a Grammy Award–winning lecturer in audio and music (above, left) and Palmer (center) assess four decades before they were born. engineering, as well as an expert in recording techniques recordings of a Miles “So What,” the first track on and analyzing sound quality. To answer their core research Davis classic with Miles Davis’s album Kind of questions, they relied on data. Data gleaned using cutting- Eastman musicologist Blue (which many critics edge computational tools can reveal aspects to music that our Mueller (standing) and consider the great- ears can’t. “Data is a type of computer-generated listening Hajim School audio est jazz album of that may or may not be the same as our own listening,” engineer Roessner. all time) was Mueller says. first released Altabef and Palmer say they were grateful to spend on vinyl in 1959. Since then, it’s been time with a track that resonates across generations. re-mastered in multiple formats, “I enjoy it,” Palmer says. “It has its own feel—kind of including on cassette in 1987 and laid-back, but at the same time, virtuosic.” compact disc that same year, and “I have never truly listened to jazz, so getting into in 1997, 2009, and 2013. And that’s it is actually really cool,” says what Altabef and Palmer were Altabef. “It’s very different focused on. from popular music. How has the sound quality Elegant.” of “So What” changed over the —Bob Marcotte

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 40 8/30/17 10:30 PM RESIDENTIAL LIFE One Community Eunice Noel spent her days in Goergen Hall, researching corneal cross-linking, and her evenings in Gilbert Hall, cooking dishes like teriyaki chicken and Cajun alfredo pasta—and making friends. Noel, a Miami native and senior at the University of Florida, says her experience in Gilbert Hall made it easier to expand her network beyond her lab partners. “You may work with just a few students in the same lab, so having the opportunity to see people in the READY TO ROC: Noel, dorm hallways, kitchen, and even the bathroom a University of Florida while brushing your teeth is a great way to get a senior, shows her conversation in.” Rochester spirit at the Noel was one of 61 undergraduate students Kearns Center Field from 14 universities conducting research as Day, one of several events to foster part of summer programs run by the David T. community among Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity. The summer researchers. Kearns Center’s overall mission is to expand the pipeline of students from low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented minority backgrounds who pursue college and graduate degrees. Its summer programs are designed to attract more such students to careers in research. Developing a sense of community that fosters tight friendships and builds networks—especially among first-generation and underrepresented minority researchers—is an important part of succeeding at that goal. Noel’s roommate was Penelope Subervi ’19, a Rochester biomedical All 61 students lived in Gilbert and were randomly paired with their engineering major from New York City. Subervi likened the pairing as “a roommates. Assigned, Harry Potter–style, to “houses,” they competed flashback, like freshman year all over again,” adding that “Eunice and I against each other in community-building events. get along great and hang out a lot.” —Jim Mandelaro

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Lights, Camera, Asteroid! In 2021, when NASA launches an infrared space telescope known as NEOCam (short for Near-Earth Object Camera), they will use an infrared light sensor developed by Rochester researchers. The sensor is designed to survey space for near-Earth objects, track them, find out what their orbits are, and determine whether or not any of them are going to hit Earth. This summer, Diarra Bell ’20 worked with Craig McMurtry, a senior research engineer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, on a project to help improve the sensor’s performance. Whether it’s the camera in a smartphone or the sensors for NEOCam, all digital imaging devices produce images composed of pixels. In order to transform the pixels A BETTER SENSOR: into an image, cameras contain a lens that Bell, working with focuses the light and directs it to a sensor. The McMurtry, helps sensor breaks down the image created by the improve an infrared sensor that will be light into pixels. However, during that process, part of NASA’s Near- the pixels cause blurring in the image. Earth Object Camera Bell studied the magnitude of that blur, (NEOCam), to be known collectively as noise-pixels, in a device launched in 2021. similar to one that will go on NEOCam. Her work contributes to the development of a computer program to measure the clarity of the images produced by the sensor. Bell, who is from Brighton, just outside Rochester, participated in Rochester’s Pre-College Experience in Physics (PREP) program while in high school and is planning to major in either astrophysics or computer science. “I am very interested in infrared technology, so this is a great opportunity for me to actually work on research that is both computer science- and physics-related,” she says. —Lindsey Valich

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rr_Sept2017_Research.indd 41 8/31/17 2:25 PM MOVING EXPERIENCES: Hannah Rubin ’21E (above, left), a student from Bedford, Massachusetts, who’s enrolled at both the Eastman School of Music and the College, arrives at Eastman’s Student Living Center, where she gets help with her move from Sophie Volpe ’20E; Emily Garrett ’21 (below, left), from Phoenix, gets assistance from D’Lion Genesis Galindo ’20 for her move.

PHOTO ESSAY Fall Looks The first days of the fall semester are filled with events, activities, and ceremonies to welcome new and returning students as they begin a new year on campus.

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rr_Sept2017_NewYear.indd 42 8/31/17 2:52 PM GREAT GREETINGS: First-year students like Nathalie Leon ’21, from Haworth, New Jersey, and their families were met by Rocky, a cappella groups, and other campus greeters as they prepared to move into residence halls.

FIRST PLACE: Sarina Regehr ’21 (above, left), from Waban, Massachusetts, Annabelle Zhou ’21, from Davis, California, and Isabel Lieberman ’21, from Acton, Massachusetts, work to arrange Regehr’s room in the new Genesee Hall.

INTERNATIONAL IMAGES: Jing Shi ’21 (left), from Ningbo, China, poses for her student ID photo, one of the tasks international students completed when they arrived on campus.

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rr_Sept2017_NewYear.indd 43 8/31/17 2:53 PM MOMENT FOR MEDICINE: David Lambert, associate professor of medicine and senior associate dean for medical student education, takes a selfie as first-year medical students assemble after the Dr. Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony.

SCHOOL SERVICE: Johvanny Rodriguez (left), from Jersey City, New Jersey, and Hao Chen, from Taiyuan, China, help weed the grounds at Rochester’s School No. 17, one of more than 90 organizations at which first-year students volunteered during the annual Wilson Day of community service.

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rr_Sept2017_NewYear.indd 44 8/31/17 2:54 PM LIGHT MOMENTS: First-year students take part in the Candlelight Ceremony at the end of their first full day on campus, one of several annual events that mark the transition to life as a Rochester student.

CAMPUS WELCOME: The Yellowjacket Pep Band entertains students and parents as they gather on the Eastman Quadrangle for the annual convocation ceremony, where students are officially welcomed to campus.

GATHERING INFORMATION: After moving in, students and their families visit an informational expo in the Feldman Ballroom in the Frederick Douglass Building, where University service and academic organizations provide information about their work to support students on campus.

MIKE BRADLEY (CANDLELIGHT CEREMONY); KEITH BULLIS (PEP BAND); J. ADAM FENSTER (STUDENT EXPO) September–October 2017 ROCHESTER REVIEW 45

rr_Sept2017_NewYear.indd 45 8/31/17 3:12 PM Alumni Gazette

MOVING PEOPLE: “Whether it’s from a distant state to a more present one, from contemplative sadness to inexplicable joy, or even from joy to sadness,” says Morrison (right, with colleague Lindsay Metzger), “I want people to be moved from one place to another and to know that experience was profound.”

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 46 8/30/17 10:30 PM ALUMNI GAZETTE A Soprano’s Lyric (and Lyrical) Debut Whitney Morrison ’15E (MM) takes the stage in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Rigoletto.

By Robin L. Flanigan

Soprano Whitney Morrison ’15E (MM) makes her debut this fall at one of the most prominent houses in opera. Morrison will take the stage as Countess Ceprano in Lyr- ic Opera of Chicago’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Morrison was assigned the role by wow- ing audiences at the final auditions of Lyr- ic’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, a leading training ground for rising stars in opera, where she has been a student since 2015. “This is a truly fortunate position to be in,” she says. The production, which launches in Oc- tober, is one of several operas in which Morrison has been cast since being selected for the audience-development program AUDIENCE ADMIRATION: Morrison won the Audience Favorite Award at the final auditions last at the final auditions last fall, where she fall as part of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s program for rising opera singers. also received the Audience Favorite Award. After Rigoletto, she will take the stage Her theory training at Eastman helped Steven Daigle, artistic director of East- this fall as Gerhilde in Lyric’s production give her the tools to digest new musical man Opera Theatre, remembers Morrison of Wagner’s Die Walkure. She’s also slat- scores quickly, something she had to do as a passionate and studious singer. “I’m ed to be an understudy for Liu in Pucci- for a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. not surprised she is succeeding,” he says. ni’s Turandot and Marguerite in Gounod’s “The boost in musicianship—that ad- Kathryn Cowdrick, a professor of voice Faust. ditional emphasis on form, being able to at Eastman, recalls Morrison as having “a Considered one of Verdi’s masterpieces, break down music into smaller parts, being large, beautiful, warm voice, and very often Rigoletto revolves around licentious mach- able to overlook the long journey of where this type of instrument takes more time to inations in the court of the Duke of Man- mature, to get control of technically and to tua. As Countess Ceprano, Morrison plays come in to its bloom, sort of like a fine wine. a key figure in the drama. She describes the “This is a premier She worked diligently to refine her foreign role as concise and uncomplicated, but she program at a top- languages and was very dedicated to her says one of the challenges is managing the faith and the music of African-American mayhem around her during festive ball and level house, a great composers, which she generously shared court scenes. opportunity, and in her recital work here.” As a high school student, Morrison saw a Morrison, who grew up singing gospel production of Carmen in the same Lyric au- now that I’m here . . . music in church, has crafted a philosophy ditorium, a memory that has added to her around her singing influenced by that faith. excitement about appearing on the opera I’m focusing my “It is the idea that all of life is connect- house’s noted stage. That excitement has energy into being as ed. Who you are, what you think, how you been tempered a bit by the realization of treat people, and how you move through the work that goes into such productions. prepared as possible.” the world influences what you do at a given “I’m more sober-minded than I expect- —Whitney Morrison moment,” she says, “so that when you come ed to be at this stage in the game,” she says. to a performance moment, it will be full, “This is a premier program at a top-level ’15E (MM) honest, and genuine.” No matter the role, house, a great opportunity, and now that she wants her listeners to be transported. I’m here, I simply approach each task as it’s going—has been very helpful,” she says. “Whether it’s from a distant state to a another day’s work. At this point I’m fo- She continues with voice lessons and more present one, from contemplative sad- cusing my energy into being as prepared language classes, studying in part with the ness to inexplicable joy, or even from joy as possible.” voice teacher she has had since late 2015, to sadness,” she says, “I want people to be Morrison received a bachelor’s degree in Julia Faulkner, director of vocal studies moved from one place to another and to vocal performance and pedagogy at Oak- at the Ryan Opera Center. Also playing a know that experience was profound.”r wood University in Alabama before earning role with the program is world-renowned a master’s degree in performance and liter- soprano Renée Fleming ’83E (MM), who Robin L. Flanigan is a Rochester-based ature from the Eastman School of Music. serves as an advisor to the center. freelance writer.

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HOW TO What Goes into a Commencement Address? David Nash ’81M (MD), the founding dean speeches a year around the country, but it’s It was also a lot of looking into the mir- of Thomas Jefferson University’s Jefferson much, much harder to write a great 12-min- ror and doing my thing. My wife is used to College of Population Health in Philadel- ute talk than to give an hour-long presen- it, so it didn’t cause any domestic distur- phia, was asked to give the commencement tation in front of 10,000 people at a bance. She would say, “There you go again.” address last spring at Salus University. business conference. The Philadelphia-based school special- The Advice izes in degree programs for health care The Warning I had a Wharton School professor professions. The president of Salus said, in the summer of 1984 who said to A board-certified internist, Nash is in- “Please, please keep it to 12 min- me, “If you’re ever in a jam with a ternationally recognized for his work in utes.” He must’ve said that to me speech, here’s a bulletproof recipe: point public accountability for outcomes, physi- five times. He’s a Navy guy and was like, “I with pride, view with alarm, and end with cian leadership development, and quality am not kidding.” So I internalized that mes- hope.” of care improvement. sage. My speech was 11 minutes. And that’s exactly what I did because you know the soufflé is going to rise -ev The Reaction The Preparation ery time. It was a real honor to be asked to I’m super organized, so I started For “point with pride,” I congratulated give a commencement address thinking about what I was going the graduates, spouses, parents, and chil- outside Jefferson, and at first, I to say six or seven months ahead dren, described what I thought Salus was elated. Then I put down the invitation of time. My Sunday afternoons are largely meant to the health care system, and said letter and thought, “Oh my gosh, what am spent working, so this became part of my I was proud of them for joining us in the I going to do here?” I give about 50 workflow. healing professions.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 48 8/30/17 10:30 PM ALUMNI GAZETTE For “view with alarm,” I described what In the News I see as the challenges the nation faces; for example, medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States. “End with hope” was relatively straight- forward. I told the graduates they were coming into the field at an amazing time, a time when we have procedures that seemed like science fiction a few years ago. I wanted very much to give them hope for the future.

The High Point I assiduously tried to avoid any political criticism because I wanted the audience to focus on the mes- sage, not to be exposed to unnecessary con- troversy where none existed. But I did bring up that the current political situation is a war on poor people, and that got loud ENCORE: Forster stars in the 18-episode return of a 1990s television classic. applause. And when you are standing up there, getting applause in the middle of the speech is a good thing. A New Sheriff for Twin Peaks When the 1990s television drama series Forster, who has been appearing in The Background Twin Peaks returned on the air this films since the late 1960s, has been I tried to pass along what Roches- summer for a limited series, fans discov- especially busy since his Oscar nomina- ter taught me, which is to always ered a new sheriff in the fictional town. tion for Best Supporting Actor for his examine the evidence and to ques- Sheriff Harry S. Truman had fallen ill, and role in the 1997 Quentin Tarantino film tion the status quo—powerful lessons for his brother, Frank—portrayed by Robert Jackie Brown. In recent years, he has sure. Forster ’64—stepped in to fill his shoes. appeared in episodes of such televi- I didn’t talk about almost flunking out of According to the documentary Secrets sion series as Breaking Bad, Last Man anatomy. I’d been an economics major at from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks, Standing, and Desperate Housewives, Vassar College and wasn’t really prepared Forster was originally the first choice and films Me, Myself & Irene, Mulholland for all the silly memorization. I got what to play Harry, but turned the role down Drive, and London Has Fallen. was called a “blue note” at the time, sort of because of a prior commitment. The role Born and raised in Rochester, Forster a warning that I was in academic purgatory. went instead to Michael Ontkean, who appeared in a College production of Bye- has since retired from acting. Bye Birdie in 1962. The Surprise I had a little issue at the end. I started to tear up a bit, thinking Food Banker with a Business Sense about the future and thinking Natasha Ribeiro Thompson ’96, ’09S organization—which serves about about my kids, so that was really hard. I had (MBA), president and CEO of the Food 16,000 people across six counties—for to use every trick in my public speaking Bank of the Southern Tier, accepted the the success of its mobile food pantry book. 2017 Food Bank of the Year award on program and its research to increase the The Last Word behalf of the organization in June. The capacity of its 165 member pantries and award is given by the Feeding America meal sites. I told the graduates to be true to Network, a national umbrella organi- Thompson served previously as the what they care about, and all the zation of food banks and pantries. The food bank president and CEO of the Cath- other good things will follow. It’s network cited the Elmira, New York, olic Charities of the Diocese of Rochester. corny but totally true. I said to put the patient at the center of everything they do. It’s so easy to say and so incredibly hard to do. Film Follows the First Class in a ‘Billionaire’s Bet’ That’s true for Rochester, true for Jeffer- Jintian (Jay) Li ’12 appeared in the leaders.” The scholarship entailed a son, and true for Salus. There will be days documentary A Billionaire’s Bet: The one-year master’s degree at Schwarzman when they don’t like every patient they’re Best & Brightest, which aired on CNBC in College at Tsingua University in Beijing, seeing, and there will be days when a pa- June. The film followed the first class of starting in 2016. tient will take their breath away. Schwarzman Scholars, participants in an Li is among the 20 percent of the I gave them three decades’ worth of re- international fellowship program estab- scholars who are from China. After grad- flection. I’m sure they were rolling their lished by Stephen Schwarzman, chair- uating from Rochester, Li worked to help eyes, but I think they appreciated it.r man and CEO of the Blackstone Group, raise the National Basketball Associa- —As told to Robin L. Flanigan “to prepare the next generation of global tion’s international presence.

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rr_Sept2017_Gazette.indd 49 8/31/17 2:29 PM ALUMNI GAZETTE YELLOWJACKET MILESTONES Kylee Bartlett ’19 Williamstown, A Timeline: Rochester’s New York Becoming only the Individual National third woman in NCAA Division III Champions 2017 history to win two multi-event titles in When Kylee Bartlett ’19 won two national titles earlier this the same academic year—the indoor pentathlon championship in March and the year, Bartlett won the outdoor heptathlon championship in May—the rising junior indoor pentathlon from Williamstown, New York, joined not only an elite group of and the outdoor women athletes in the country, but she also joined the history of heptathlon in 2017. Rochester’s individual national title holders. Bartlett was the second Rochester athlete to win a national Stephen title in the heptathlon and the third in the history of Rochester Goodridge ’08, athletics to win multiple individual national titles. ’09 (MS) Here’s a look at the company she keeps. Winston-Salem, North Carolina Dividing the last day 2006 of competition so that he could also take his optics final, Goodridge won the 2006 individual golf 1974 championship.

Josefa Benzoni ’88, ’92W (MA) Rochester David Moller ’75 Anthony Palumbo Benzoni won Ellicott City, Maryland ’74, ’84 (PhD) three national Moller won the three- Rochester 1988/ championships in mile title at the 1974 Also at the 1974 outdoor 1989 track and field, outdoor meet and the meet, Palumbo won the winning the indoor 1974 three-mile run in triple jump title. 1,500 meters in 1988 cross country. and 1989, as well as the 3,000 meters in 1989. Tom Tuori ’87 Rochester 1983 Tuori won the 1,500-meter race in 1987 after finishing second as 1987 a sophomore and junior. Bob Swartout ’83, Alex Gaeta ’83, ’91 ’92S (MBA) (PhD) Rochester New York City Paired for doubles for the first time at the start of the season, Swartout and Gaeta won the 1983 doubles championship in tennis. Michelle Mazurik Maybaum ’86 Renee Schmitt Carlsbad, California Somerville ’87 Mazurik Maybaum Winston-Salem, won the 55-meter North Carolina 1986 dash title in 1986, In addition to winning one year after the 1985 heptathlon 1985 finishing third. title, Schmitt Somerville helped lead the volleyball team to its first NCAA playoff appearance.

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GETTING ORIENTED: From Frosh Camp to Orientation, the tradition of introducing students to campus and to one another has continued. For students who arrived in the fall of 1985, the activities included whatever this is. Recognize anyone? Write to us at [email protected].

St. Lawrence County judge and 1963 Karen Dahl sends a photo- College a trustee of the New York Power graph and a challenge: “A group of ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING Authority, was honored by NYPA as women from the class of ’63 has met the namesake of its new Eugene L. at my summer home on Cape Cod 1957 Bob Mumford sends a photo Nicandri Nature Center at Robert for a weekend ‘reunion’ each June of himself wearing the tradition- Moses State Park in Massena. The $12 for the past 14 years. I am attach- al Bhutanese robe called a “gho” million, 9,500-square-foot facility will ing a photo of a part of this year’s and a description of the trip he took provide science and nature educa- group. Not everyone was there last spring with his fiancée, Chris- tion in indoor and outdoor settings for when this photo was taken. Pictured tine Smith, to the Himalayan country the public. Eugene is vice chair of the are Jeanne Torre, Janet Baker of Bhutan to photograph its moun- NYPA’s board of trustees and a long- Jennison, Karen Lieber Dahl, Carol tain scenery and wildlife. They drove time Massena community leader who Munch, Judy McElroy Darweesh, from India with their Bhutanese guide, championed the effort to build the Anne Stillman Brown, Carolyn entering Bhutan at Samdrup Jongkhar, new center, which was constructed Curtis Gelderman, Barbaralee and traveled the country’s sole east- with green-building design features Bank Milon, Barbara Murabito west highway all the way west to Paro, to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Crellin, Cindy Parsons Brown, which has the only international air- Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Helen Calhoun Jaeger, and Lynne port. Bob writes: “Highlights includ- certification. ed visiting the magnificent Punakha ‘Dzong’ (built in 1637); photographing 1961 Joyce Wolfe Hoffer (see ’63 Abbreviations one of the most beautiful birds in the Medicine and Dentistry). E Eastman School of Music world, the Himalayan monal at the M School of Medicine Tharpaling Monastery; and watching 1962 Karl Roth, a profes- and Dentistry elaborately dressed dancers at the sor and former chair of the pedi- N School of Nursing spring festival in Paro. We also ate a atrics department at Creighton S Simon Business School picnic breakfast above the clouds at University School of Medicine in W Warner School of Education 12,500 feet elevation. While I was dis- Omaha, Nebraska, coedited the Mas Master’s degree appointed by the lack of snakes, Chris- second edition of the book Pediatric RC River Campus tine was delighted.” Endocrinology and Inborn Errors of Res Medical Center residency Metabolism (McGraw-Hill), first pub- Flw Postdoctoral fellowship 1957 Mumford 1960 Eugene Nicandri, a retired lished in 2009. Pdc Postdoctoral certificate

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 51 8/30/17 10:30 PM CLASS NOTES Trimby Kroner. Also part of the fes- north central Florida for 12 years. tivities, but not in the photo, were Carl remains on the faculty of the Eileen Cahill Cowley, Kathleen University of Florida Levin College of Rafferty Dunn, and Susan Everett Law in Gainesville, where he teach- Makowski. The fact that the names es trial practice and mediation advo- of the people in the photo are not in cacy. He also continues to work as any particular order is for the enter- a mediator in civil cases through- tainment of our classmates. Who can out Florida. Carl and his wife, Anna, match the pictures with the names?” have two daughters and three grandchildren. 1964 Thomas (Mike) McFarland MELIORA has published a historical novel, 1976 Donna Matles Markell, Donnybrook (Bootstrap Publishing). retired from teaching public school Set during the Civil War, it tells the French and Spanish for 37 years, is story of the New York City Police a certified yoga teacher and Yoga WEEKEND Department and the Draft Riots Calm youth instructor and teacher 1963 Dahl of 1863 from the vantage point of trainer. She sends a photo of her- Patrick Kavanaugh, an Irish immi- self doing a yoga practice with Tao grant and member of the police Porchon Lynch, whom Donna calls force. Mike is the former presi- “a phenomenal teacher and prac- OCTOBER 12–15 dent of the Rochester Civil War titioner who had the distinction of Roundtable and lives with his wife, turning 99” in June. 2017 Nicki, in Albion, New York. 1979 Christopher Gribbin was 1966 Richard Saddlemire ’68W installed as the 225th president of (MA) has written a novel, Fracking the Medical Society of New Jersey— Dinosaurs: The Cayuga Lake Disaster founded in 1766—at its annual meet- (Freisen Press), under the pseud- ing in May. He has been an active onym Dalton Mire. member of the society for more than 20 years and served on its 1967 Jeanne Tapp Ozols ’70W board of trustees beginning in 2010. (MA) hosted a minireunion at her Christopher practices diagnostic and MEMORIES home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, interventional radiology at Robert for her Wilder 610 suitemates. Wood Johnson University Hospital 1967 Ozols Jeanne writes that they have seen and Saint Peter’s University Hospital, each other over the years, but this where he has taught medical stu- reunion was a special celebration dents, residents, and fellows for ARE MADE including “lots of laughter, pool more than 25 years. He also serves time, remembrances, and late- as a clinical associate professor of night euchre on the porch.” They radiology at Rutgers Robert Wood hope to reunite on campus for their Johnson Medical School. class reunion in October. Pictured from left to right are Jeanne, Alice 1980 Jane Bernzweig shares a Hammond Doyle, Linda Lindquist photo she captions “Yellowjackets Hewitt, and Susie Quick Rice. kickbox, but not in the Albany you think,” of herself with Ed Luby ’82 1968 Ed Wetschler, Caribbean after a kickboxing class in Albany, HERE editor of Recommend maga- California. She writes, “We are zine, won the Caribbean Tourism friends, living in the same commu- Organization’s Inner Circle Media nity, having raised families. We just Award for his December feature, realized we both went to the U of “Trending Now in the Caribbean.” He R.” . . . Michael Blaire was named a 1976 Markell 1980 Bernzweig writes that most of his forecasts “are fellow of the International Academy URAlumniRelations proving true, but the outlook for of Compounding Pharmacists. 1983 Hope Shapiro Lilian sends for Teaching and Learning, has pub- Cuba could get . . . interesting.” He is the CEO and founder of a photo of herself (far right) with lished a book, Degrees of Difference: UofR Diamondback Drugs in Scottsdale, her suite mates, Lori Tannenbaum Women, Men, and the Value of 1970 Nancy Heller Cohen ’70N Arizona, which specializes in veteri- Solano, Jennifer Pekale Higher Education (Routledge). writes that her third title, Murder nary compounding. Schulman, and Jill Segal Toporek uofralumni by Manicure, in her Bad Hair Day (see photo, page 54). Hope writes: 1986 Paul Hillman sends a photo Mystery series (Orange Grove Press), 1982 Laura Gasparrini has pub- “We have remained close friends and news of his promotion in May to is now available as an audiobook. lished her fourth book, Earth & since freshman year and recent- colonel in the US Air Force Reserve, #URMW17 #URreunion Elegance: A Bohemian’s Guide to ly enjoyed an evening together at Judge Advocate General’s Corps (see 1972 Carl Schwait was award- Creating Artisan Leather Jewelry, the Pierre Hotel [in New York] at an photo, page 54). ed the Florida Bar’s G. Kirk Haas Volume 2 (Om Tara). Laura is found- alumni gathering.” Humanitarian Award. He recently er and designer at Om Tara, and the 1987 Sam Guerrieri has joined stepped down from the Florida Bar’s inventor of the patented Om Tara 1984 Nancy Peckham Niemi ’01W Canandaigua National Bank & Trust board of governors, where he rep- Crimping Pliers. . . . Ed Luby (see (PhD), director of faculty teaching (CNB) as executive vice president. He REGISTER TODAY! resented the lawyers and judges of ’80). initiatives at Yale University’s Center has worked in the financial indus- ROCHESTER.EDU/MELIORAWEEKEND

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 53 8/30/17 10:30 PM CLASS NOTES KUDOS & COMMENDATIONS Eastman Honors University Advisor, Leader The Eastman School of Music presented a dean’s Arts Center, and president of the Canandaigua medal to George Hamlin IV, the chair of the Area Development Corporation. school’s board of managers and a longtime sup- A graduate of Yale University, Hamlin earned porter of the school and its programs as well as a law degree at the University of Virginia. While other units of the University. at Yale, he was a member of the Whiffenpoofs, The chairman, trust officer, and senior policy the university’s well-known a cappella group. MELIORA advisor at Canandaigua National Bank & Trust Co. He and his wife, Mary, have three children: and Canandaigua National Corporation, Hamlin Sherrod, Frank, and Alex ’00E. As part of their has been involved with Eastman for more than two commitment to Eastman, the couple created the WEEKEND decades. In addition to serving on the Eastman Na- position of Hamlin Family Director of the In- tional Council, he is a member of the boards of the stitute for Music Leadership and created the Medical Center and UR Medicine’s Home Care. Hamlin Family Scholarship, programs that are A leading member of the business community designed to help ensure that students, regardless OCTOBER 12–15 in the Finger Lakes, Hamlin serves as chairman of their financial means, are prepared to join the emeritus at Keuka College, chairman emeritus at ever-changing musical landscape as innovators 2017 Thompson Health System, director of the New and entrepreneurs. The couple also are members DEAN’S MEDALIST: Hamlin is York State Wine and Culinary Center, director of of the George Eastman Circle, the University’s a longtime supporter of the Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing leadership annual giving society. University and its programs. REMINISCE HERE

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try for more than 25 years, holding Phillips, which was named among the granted tenure and promoted to several executive positions, most top in the nation, according to recent full professor of law at Washburn recently as president and CEO of survey results published in the University’s law school and will M&T Securities. annual report BTI Law Firms Best at serve as the school’s associate dean Cybersecurity 2017. Risa is a partner for academic affairs. Joe contin- 1989 Anne Merton ’89N, Dawn in the firm’s Philadelphia office. . . . ues to write in the areas of labor Tudryn Piciacchio, Laura Hales Philip Nel has published a book, Was and employment law and the ethics Soliman, Maryann Leone Maidat, the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden of legal writing. His most recent Amy Sinensky Rosenfeld, and Racism of Children’s Literature, and article, “Benchslaps,” was pub- Jennifer Traylor Kruschwitz ’95 the Need for Diverse Books (Oxford lished in the Utah Law Review. He (MS) reunited to celebrate their University Press). He holds the title lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his 50th birthdays together. The former University Distinguished Professor wife, Gina, and their three children, suitemates of Slater 430 “descend- of English at Kansas State University. Zachary, 12, Katie, 9, and Ryan, 8. ed upon New York City for a whirl- . . . Michael Wenger joined the New wind weekend walking the High Line York City–based law firm Otterbourg 1996 Christa Tinari coauthored 1986 Hillman and seeing a Broadway show, with as counsel in the firm’s banking and a book, Create a Culture of Kindness lots of laughter and Rocky in tow,” finance practice. Before that he was in Middle School: 48 Character- private schools and youth-serving Anne writes. general counsel with Rosenthal & Building Lessons to Foster Respect organizations for nearly 20 years. Rosenthal, a privately owned factor- and Prevent Bullying (Free Spirit). She welcomes the opportunity to REGISTER TODAY! ROCHESTER.EDU/MELIORAWEEKEND 1992 Risa Greene Boerner chairs ing and finance company. She writes that her passion for partner with Rochester alumni the data security and workplace pri- education, peace, and justice have who are interested in bringing vacy group at the law firm Fisher 1995 Joseph Mastrosimone was informed her work at public and bullying prevention and social- URAlumniRelations UofR uofralumni #URMW17 #URreunion

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 55 8/30/17 10:30 PM CLASS NOTES emotional skills training to their Courtney, John Christopher Legg school or workplace. She can be ’80, Jenna Hoeler ’07, Joe Lust ’08, reached on the website Peacepraxis. Brian Thomson ’11, ’12 (MS), Pat com. . . . Chris Webb sends a Hughes ’08, Philip Rihm ’13, and wedding announcement and Marek Slipski.” photo: “I married my partner of six years, Alfredo Justo, in a small 2012 Catherine Marando writes ceremony under a painted maple that she and Andrew Hagar were tree at the Arnold Arboretum in married in June (see photo, page Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 58). Pictured from left to right MELIORA on a beautiful day in July 2016. are Patrick Messmer ’10, Kaitlin A larger celebration followed in Holden Messmer, Zack Milstone, August on yet another gorgeous Nina DeSoi ’14N, Andrew, Catherine, WEEKEND day at Allis State Park in Brookfield, Kaitlyn Brady, Jaclyn Inglis, Chris Vermont. Isabel Hernandez-Cata, Schmitt ’14 (MS), and Cassandra Steve Markofsky, Brett Dreyer, Gorman. 1996 Webb Jeff Suszczynski, and Manish Saha attended, and it was a great 2014 Sarah Skinner writes that OCTOBER 12–15 minireunion! The photo is of us she and Shawn Burke got engaged livin’ it up in downtown Montpelier, in October 2016 and plan to return Vermont, the following day.” to Rochester to get married in 2017 October 2018 (see photo, page 58). 2004 Chris ’06S (MBA) and Sarah and Shawn met in 2012 while Grace Vangeison Johnston ’09M working at the Goergen Athletic (PhD) welcomed their second daugh- Center. They live in Urbana, Illinois, ter in April. Chris writes, “Oliana May with their two dogs and are both is the newest future Yellowjacket!” pursuing graduate degrees in exer- They live in Newburyport, cise physiology. Massachusetts. 2015 Renee Smith and Alex 2005 Erin Bressler (see ’07). Matthers were married in June at the Lyman Estate in Waltham, FIND FUN FOR 2006 Daniel Etlinger and his Massachusetts (see photo, page 58). 2004 Johnston 2006 Etlinger wife, Tabitha, welcomed their second Pictured from left to right are Harry child, Orion Nachumbear Etlinger— Clarke ’15, ’17 (MS), Alexander with the initials ONE, Daniel points Lambropoulos, Erik Roisland, out. He adds that he and class- Benjamin Dengler, Alex, Renee, mate Christopher Widowski ’07 Caitlin Topkis, Amaya Duncan ALL AGES “were victorious over fellow Theta ’14, Emily Michel ’17, Natalya Chi alumni Alex Geringer and Ajay Tausanovitch ’17, and Brittany Makhija in a recent rooftop death- Flittner. Renee and Alex relocat- match Pong game.” ed to Durham, North Carolina, just a few weeks after the wedding and 2007 Pooja Rawal sends this report that they “are loving it.” update: “I joined the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct as an Graduate attorney and also got married in ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING February. My matron of honor, Erin HERE Bressler ’05, was my big sister in 1995 Jennifer Traylor 2007 Rawal my sorority, Gamma Phi Beta. She Kruschwitz (MS) (see ’89 College). is directly to the left of me in the photo. My brother, Sagar Rawal ’08, 2014 Jessica Horton (PhD), an URAlumniRelations was the best man.” . . . Christopher assistant professor of art histo- Widowski (see ’06). ry at the University of Delaware, has published a book, Art for an UofR 2008 Sagar Rawal (see ’07). Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation (Duke 2011 Courtney Legg ’12W (MS) University Press). uofralumni and Craig Baumgartner were married at Lourdes Camp in Skaneateles, 2014 Kristof Zetenyi has been #URMW17 #URreunion New York. Pictured are (bottom, left promoted to the manager level at to right) Lia Weiner, Dan Chebot Analysis Group, a private econom- ’09, Jason Zayac ’12, Erin Crossett, ic consulting firm. He specializes and Maggie Stevenson; and (top in industrial organization, applied row, left to right) Tyle Stelzig, econometrics, and antitrust econom- Donald Polaski, Jonathan Pinto, ics, and works in the firm’s Boston 2011 Baumgartner and Legg Matt Metz ’13, Andy Byrd, Craig, office. REGISTER TODAY! ROCHESTER.EDU/MELIORAWEEKEND

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 57 8/30/17 10:30 PM CLASS NOTES published a book review in the an accompanying jazz soundtrack. spring 2017 issue of the National Performing on the soundtrack are Association of College Wind and Dave on trumpet, synthesizer, and Percussion Instructors Journal, voice, Noah Berman ’12 on guitar, marking his 50th year of writing arti- Michael Conrad (MM) on piano, cles for the journal. . . . Art Michaels Aaron Staebell ’05, ’10 (MM) on writes that his brass quintets drums, and Benjamin Thomas ’10, “Brassy Capriccio” and “Two Trillion ’12 (MM) on bass. Dave also writes Triplets” were published by Lassus that in April he unveiled the self-re- Publications on Musicforbrass.com, leased Talking Under Water—“an and that three of his concert band album about heartbreak and coming pieces—“Mockingbirds,” “Horseshoe to terms with loss”—with cellist Elise Curve,” and “Quintapade”—were Hughey ’09, ’11 (MM). published by Aamano Music. 2014 Christina Custode (MA) 1997 Ann Marie Willer (MA) (see ’10). has been named director of preservation services at the Northeast Document Conservation Center in School of Andover, Massachusetts. The center 2012 Hagar and Marando offers conservation treatment, dig- Medicine and ital imaging, and audio preserva- Dentistry tion services, as well as preservation training, consultations, and disaster 1962 Geoffrey Sperber (MS) advice to clients. She writes, “I am has coauthored the third edition of thankful for the student job I had in Craniofacial Embryogenetics and the conservation lab of the Sibley Development (People’s Medical Music Library; the skills I learned Publishing House). He’s a professor there formed the foundation for my emeritus in medicine and dentistry career in library preservation.” at the University of Alberta.

2000 Ken Meyer (DMA) has pub- 1963 Barry Hoffer (MD), ’65 lished a book, Diatonic Arpeggios (PhD), ’68 (Res) received an for Classical Guitar (Mel Bey honorary doctorate from the Publications). Ken has performed University of Helsinki in Finland last around the world and teaches at May. Barry is retired as the scientific Syracuse University and Onondaga director of the National Institute Community College. on Drug Abuse and is now director of research and adjunct professor 2014 Burke and Skinner 2005 Aaron Staebell ’10 (MM) in the Department of Neurological (see ’13). Surgery at Case Western Reserve University (see photo, page 60). 2009 Elise Hughey ’11 (MM) (see ’13). Send Your News! 2010 Christina Custode ’14 If you have an announcement (MA) won a “Rossy Award” for Best you’d like to share with your fellow Singer/Songwriter at the Roswell alumni, please send or e-mail your Film Festival in Roswell, New Mexico, personal and professional news to in April. . . . Aaron Staebell (MM) Rochester Review. (see ’13). . . . Benjamin Thomas ’12 E-mail your news and digital (MM) (see ’13). photos to [email protected]. Mail news and photos to Rochester 2011 Elise Hughey (MM) (see ’13). Review, 22 Wallis Hall, University of Rochester, Box 270044, Rochester, 2012 Noah Berman (see ’13). . . . NY 14627-0044. Benjamin Thomas (MM) (see ’13). Please do not edit, crop, or 2015 Matthers and Smith resize your digital images; send the 2013 Dave Chisholm, a cartoonist original, full-size file downloaded year, has been released on CD along as well as a musician and composer, from your camera or smartphone. Eastman School with other compositions [including] is the subject of the profile “Blending To ensure timely publication of of Music Bedouin Impressions, Laudations, Skill Sets” in the September issue your information, keep in mind the and “Shepherd Song.” All these of Downbeat magazine. The article following deadlines: 1969 Max Stern writes: “My new works draw inspiration from the comes following the June release symphony, Beyond the Sambatyon, Bible, desert, ethnic-liturgical of Instrumental (Outside-In Music), Issue Deadline which was commissioned, pre- sources, and Jewish history.” a multimedia work written, drawn, January 2018 October 1, 2017 miered, and recorded by the Israel and composed by Dave, consisting of March 2018 December 1, 2017 Sinfonietta Beersheba earlier this 1970 Geary Larrick (MM) a 200-plus-page graphic novel and May 2018 February 1, 2018

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 58 8/30/17 10:30 PM CLASS NOTES Pictured are Barry—with the physical symbols of the award, a pleated silk top hat and engraved golden sword— and his wife, Joyce Wolfe Hoffer ’61RC.

1966 Charles Sanders (PhD) has published a book, Radiobiology and Radiation Hormesis: New Evidence and Its Implications for Medicine and Society (Springer).

1981 David Nash (MD) received an honorary degree from Salus University, founded as the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry in 1919 and specializing in training health care profession- als. He also gave the school’s 2017 commencement address. David is the founding dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia (see photo, page 60).

2009 Grace Vangeison Johnston (PhD) (see ’04 College).

2012 Rajvinder Bhatia (D) writes that she and Inder Chopra welcomed a daughter, Nanki Chopra, in May SAN FRANCISCO: Among the alumni celebrating in San Francisco were Brian Castro ’12 , Ivan Akhremitchev (see photo, page 60). ’12, Jose Resuleo, Jonathan Shames ’12, Mayra Garcia Revuelta ’12 , Zack Kimball ’10, Shaina Epstein ’09, Matthew Eisenstein ’18, Madeline Hermann ’17, and Rachael Hsu ’17. 2014 Josh Leigh (MS) writes that GORGEOUS GEORGE he and his wife, Kellie, welcomed a son, Marshall Conrad, last January (see photo, page 60). Josh is a proj- Happy Birthday, ect director in the Medical Center’s web services department and Kellie George! is the assistant dean of student The Young Alumni Council and the Office of affairs at the Eastman School. Alumni Relations teamed up this summer to celebrate July 12—the birthday of Rochester’s most generous benefactor, George Eastman. In the School of Nursing days before and after Eastman’s 163rd birthday, the groups sponsored alumni get-togethers in 1970 Nancy Heller Cohen (see ’70 College). several cities, including Boston, Buffalo, Chica- go, Houston, Long Beach, California, New York 1989 Anne Merton (see ’89 City, Omaha, Philadelphia, Rochester, San Fran- College). cisco, and Washington, D.C. Simon Business School

1999 Sanjay Pansari (MBA) and Joy LaDue ’06W (MS), ’17W (EdD) were married at Asbury First United Methodist Church in Rochester in December 2016 (see photo, page 60).

2001 Roderick Cyr has published a novel, A Town Called Babylon (CreateSpace), an exploration of social tyranny.

2003 Alex Sukhoy ’03S (MBA), PHILADELPHIA: Eastman made an appearance at the NEW YORK CITY: On hand for the New York City a career coach and author, has Philadelphia event, where he met Jessica Rose ’16, a event were Emily Hart ’12 (left) and Farrell Cooke ’14 published Date Your Career: The Philadelphia Young Alumni Council member. (right)—and Rocky.

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rr_Sept2017_Notes.indd 59 8/31/17 2:31 PM CLASS NOTES Longest Relationship of Your Life Dolly McFadden Kelly ’51N, ’55, (CreateSpace). July 2017 Frank E. Wood ’51, 2006 Chris Johnston (MBA) April 2017 (see ’04 College). George M. Angleton ’52M (MS), July 2017 Donald R. Henderson ’52, Warner School June 2017 of Education Phyllis Raz Horowitz ’53, June 2017 1968 Richard Saddlemire (MA) Donald S. Bennett ’54, (see ’66 College). July 2017 Junice Panick ’54N, 1970 Jeanne Tapp Ozols (MA) June 2017 (see ’67 College). Joan Mraz Tallis ’54E (MM), June 2017 1972 Mary Werthman White 1981M Nash Gloria McMaster Juhn ’55E (MM), (MA) has published a collection of July 2017 poetry, How the Universe Says Yes to James E. Kincaid ’55, Me (Main Street Rag Press). June 2016 Donald A. Reed ’55, 2001 Nancy Peckham Niemi July 2017 (PhD) (see ’84 College). Jacob Y. Terner ’56, June 2017 2006 Joy LaDue (MS), ’17W (EdD) Robert C. Brown ’57, (see ’99 Simon). September 2016 Solon I. Finkelstein ’57, 2012 Courtney Legg (MS) March 2017 (see ’11 College). Barbara Flanagan Ingersoll ’57, June 2017 2017 Joy LaDue (EdD) Ruth Corwin Meyer ’57E (MM), (see ’99 Simon). May 2017 Robert G. Seath ’57E (MM), 1963M Hoffer 2012M Bhatia January 2016 In Memoriam Geraldine Lombardo Buchanan ALUMNI ’58, July 2017 Virginia Berning Ervin ’41N, Frederick D. Hawke ’58 (MS), July 2017 June 2017 Rita Weingartner Williams ’41, Robert C. Monroe ’58, June 2017 April 2017 Janet Morse Dean ’45N, John R. Lanz ’59S (MS), January 2017 June 2017 Barbara Greenlar DeRiemer ’45, Vincent M. Picciano ’59 (MA), ’46N, May 2017 June 2017 Edward D. Fugo ’45, ’48M (MD), Noah J. Rodeheffer ’59 (MA), August 2016 December 2015 Phyllis Alwin Sanders ’45E, ’46E Gordon M. Rose ’59, (MM), June 2017 June 2017 Jeanne Treman Shempp ’45, Donald G. Steele ’59, April 2017 June 2017 John L. Barg ’46, 2014M Leigh 1999S LaDue and Pansari Carol Schmidt Sullivan ’59N, June 2017 June 2017 Richard R. Henty ’46, Virginia Vandecarr Howard ’48, Joseph B. Schmoll ’49E (MM), Constance Gerhard Brown ’60, January 2017 June 2017 May 2017 June 2017 David J. Kazarian ’46, Walton L. Howes ’48, Judith Spoor Vineberg ’49N, Jack C. Corey ’60, July 2017 August 2016 October 2016 June 2017 John W. Krosse ’46, Julian Alexander ’49M (MD), Ann Camelio ’50, Carl H. Andrus ’61M (MD), ’72M June 2017 July 2017 March 2016 (Res), July 2017 Patricia Robinson Neill ’46, Calvin K. Brauer ’4 9, Carl W. Garland ’50, Charles R. Bales ’61M (MD), December 2015 June 2017 July 2017 June 2017 Delois Taylor Blumer ’4 7, Carl E. Graupman ’4 9, Nancy Young Motondo ’50N, Paul J. Delmore ’61 (MS), July 2017 July 2017 July 2017 July 2017 Elizabeth Vria Breiner ’4 7, Alfred S. Ketcham ’49M (MD), Barbara Nash Richer ’50N, Paul C. Gassenmayer ’61, June 2017 July 2017 March 2017 June 2017 Robert C. Schnorr ’4 7, James R. McElheny ’4 9, Donald L. Smith ’50, ’57 (PhD), Robert Gillespie ’61E, July 2017 July 2017 June 2017 June 2017 Robert J. Gill ’48M (MD), Angelo G. Nicchitta ’4 9, Robert W. Barnes ’51, David G. Publow ’61, ’73M (Res), July 2017 October 2016 April 2017 July 2017

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rr_Sept2017_Notes.indd 60 8/31/17 2:32 PM CLASS NOTES Robert W. Woodhouse ’61M (Res), February 2017 Alan K. Borthwick ’62, July 2017 Philip R. Nader ’62M (MD), April 2017 Glenda Bolyard Scherf ’62E, April 2017 George W. Scherer ’63 (MS), June 2017 Leslie Moore ’64W (Mas), July 2017 Anne Rapavi Scheuerman ’64W (Mas), June 2017 Rose Agresta ’68 (MA), June 2017 Benjamin M. Dawson ’69, May 2017 Roger Weir ’69W (EdD), July 2017 Joseph S. Salipante ’70, June 2017 Sigitas Babusis ’72M (Res), October 2015 Fenwick Smith ’72E, July 2017 John C. Youngers ’72W (EdD), July 2017 Richard H. Lindner ’75S (MBA), July 2017 HUMANIST: Cunningham shared a lifelong interest in the humanities. Michael J. McKenna ’75M (PhD), TRIBUTE June 2017 Janet Mlinar ’75N, ’78N (MS), June 2017 Joseph Cunningham ’67 (MA): Carol Moroz ’75, June 2017 ‘Essence of the Humanities’ D. Judith Laing ’76, Joe Cunningham ’67 (MA) believed in me. He Joe received the University’s Hutchison Medal May 2017 believed as well in the importance of a liberal and in 2016, an honorary degree, doctor of laws. Joachim A. Ritter ’77, June 2017 arts education, the achievements and promise of My relationship with Joe grew closer after I Frank E. Matthews ’78, the University, and the need for humanistic per- became the Gabrellian Director of the Human- July 2017 spectives in a democratic society. But it was his ities Center. Joe was deeply committed to the Edwin R. Betts ’79, faith in me—in the merits of my scholarly work mission and aspirations of the center, which, for- June 2017 and my contributions as a faculty member—that tunately, he was able to tour with me on his last James F. Burgess ’79, I will carry as a personal memory. visit to the campus. His generosity and that of June 2017 I don’t recall how Joe first came to ask for cop- his wife, Andrea, will have a tremendous impact Richard M. Engel ’79M (Res), ies of my books, but he turned out to be my ideal on humanistic inquiry at Rochester, benefiting June 2017 reader: a person of keen intelligence and intel- alike undergraduates, faculty members, and the Ann Naab Inzana ’80N, lectual curiosity who grasped the issues I was Rochester community, all of which were import- July 2017 James F. Iannone ’81, trying to raise and told me so in lovely notes that ant in Joe’s outlook on the role of the University. June 2017 epitomized his thoughtfulness. How remarkable More than that, though, for me Joe will always Dana Miller Packman ’85W (EdD), that he took the time from his busy career to en- personify the essence of what it means to be a hu- June 2017 courage and support me. He voiced the same mane individual. From where I stood, he exuded Donald E. White ’85 (MS), enthusiasm when he hosted me at his beautiful empathy, breadth of vision, aesthetic sensitivity, July 2017 home in Palm Springs so that I could share my dedication to reasoned discourse, and, above all, Christine Bentley ’87 (MS), ideas with local alumni. kindness—the very qualities that the humanities July 2017 Joe, who died last May, expressed lifelong in- teach us to cultivate. Elsie Wiberg ’87, terest in the study of history. After earning his I am glad to have had the chance to know July 2017 law degree at Columbia and while waiting to him as a friend and will prize his memory as an Christopher D. Carver ’88, r July 2017 be called to active duty in the military, he pur- inspiration. Wei Ran Lin ’90E (MM), sued a master’s degree in history at Rochester. —Joan Shelley Rubin February 2017 Throughout a career as a prominent Washington, Charles Wagener ’90D, D. C., attorney, he remembered the role that the Rubin is the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director June 2017 University had played in his life and in 2011, he of the Humanities Center at the University, Ellen Volpe ’10N (PhD), endowed a professorship in history, a position where she also holds the title of Dexter Perkins June 2017 held by my colleague Robb Westbrook. In 2015, Professor in History.

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Was the Cat in the Hat Black? resolution, and Tinari is a Pennsylvania- Books The Hidden Racism of Children’s based educational consultant with a focus Drosophilids of the Midwest Literature and the Need on building empathy in children. and Northeast for Diverse Books By Thomas Werner By Philip Nel ’92 Language Arts, Math, and Science and John Jaenike ’79 (Pdc) Oxford University Press, 2017 in the Elementary Music Classroom: River Campus Libraries, 2017 In a series of five essays, A Practical Tool Jaenike and Werner Nel examines explicit By Kim Milai ’84E present an electronic and implicit racism in Oxford University Press, 2017 field guide to fruit flies children’s literature and Elementary music in the northeastern the role of race in the de- teacher Milai offers a and midwestern velopment of many con- guide to incorporating United States, identify- ventions of the genre. A classroom subjects into ing 55 distinct Dro- noted scholar of chil- music curricula using sophila species, dren’s literature, Nel holds the title of STEAM (science, tech- illustrated with high-resolution photo- University Distinguished Professor of nology, engineering, arts, graphs. Jaenike is a professor of biology English at Kansas State University. and math)–inspired at Rochester, and Werner is an associate strategies. professor of biological sciences at Michi- Fracking Dinosaurs: gan Technological University. The first The Cayuga Lake Disaster Diatonic Arpeggios open-access book published by River By Dalton Mire for Classical Guitar Campus Libraries, the guide can be ac- Freisen Press, 2017 By Kenneth Meyer ’00E (DMA) cessed at http://humanities.lib.rochester. Under the pen name Dal- Mel Bay Publications, 2017 edu/drosophilaguide/. ton Mire, Richard Sad- Meyer presents ex- dlemire ’66 tells the tended arpeggios for Pacifism: A Philosophy fictional torys of ancient, chords over the full of Nonviolence aquatic dinosaurs that range of classical gui- By Robert Holmes resurface when a gas and tar. Left-hand finger- Bloomsbury, 2016 salt company pollutes ings offer “a wide Holmes, a professor Cayuga Lake. variety of shifting pos- emeritus of philosophy at sibilities,” while right- Rochester and noted phi- Date Your Career: The Longest hand fingerings demonstrate“ losopher of nonviolence, Relationship of Your Life sequencing patterns that will improve offers an argument for By Alexsandra Sukhoy ’03S (MBA) control and dexterity when navigating pacifism that rebuts just CreateSpace, 2017 the thorniest concert repertoire.” Meyer war theory as well as ra- Career consultant Suk- performs on guitar globally and teaches tionale for wars in Viet- hoy offers a how-to at Syracuse University and Onondaga nam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and guide to navigate your Community College. Afghanistan. career, “whether you’re a recent grad, a mom Pediatric Endocrinology Radiobiology and Radiation thinking of heading and Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Hormesis: New Evidence and Its back into the workforce, or a mid-level Second Edition Implications for Medicine and Society manager looking to make a change.” Edited by Karl Roth ’62 et al. By Charles Sanders ’66M (PhD) McGraw-Hill, 2017 Springer, 2017 Create a Culture of Kindness Roth coedits the collec- Sanders explores new in Middle School: 48 Character- tive work of more than research on the mecha- Building Lessons to Foster Respect 140 experts around the nisms of radiation and Prevent Bullying globe in a second edi- hormesis and the poten- By Naomi Drew and Christa Tinari ’96 tion of a comprehen- tial benefits of low-dose Free Spirit Publishing, 2017 sive reference for ionizing radiation in pre- Drew and Tinari offer students and profes- venting and treating a a guide for teachers sionals in the fields of wide variety of inflam- and students to creat- general medicine and genetic counseling, matory diseases. Sanders is a former ing a student-driven in addition to endocrinology, genetics, professor of nuclear engineering at culture of kindness and and biochemical genetics. Roth is a pro- Washington State University and the Ko- mutual respect in their fessor and former chair of pediatrics at rea Advanced Institute of Science and schools. Drew is an Creighton University School of Medicine Technology. expert in conflict in Omaha, Nebraska.

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 62 8/30/17 10:30 PM BOOKS & RECORDINGS Craniofacial Embryogenetics projects. Gasparrini is the founder of the Talking Under Water and Development, Third Edition Om Tara line of craft products, services, By Talking Under Water By Geoffrey Sperber ’62D (MS) and supplies at Omtara.com. Self-published, 2017 and Steven Sperber The duo of Dave People’s Medical Publishing House, 2017 Art for an Undivided Earth: Chisholm ’13E (DMA) Geoffrey Sperber, a The American Indian Movement and Elise Hughey ’09E, professor emeritus of Generation ’11E (MM) unveils a re- medicine and dentistry By Jessica Horton ’13 (PhD) cording about heart- at the University of Al- Duke University Press, 2017 break and loss. The berta, and Steven Sper- Horton, an assistant pro- tracks are composed by Chisholm and ber, associate director fessor of art history at performed by Hughey (cello), Chisholm of Mount Sinai Hospi- the University of Dela- (voice and guitar), Damon (Alex) Patrick tal’s genetic testing ware, explores the role of ’14E (guitar), and Joe Parker ’14E (MM) laboratory, coauthor an updated guide to Native American artists (drums). The producer is Stephen Roess- craniofacial embryogenetics, incorporat- in the American Indian ner ’14 (MS), a lecturer and doctoral can- ing new research in embryology. Movement, a civil rights didate in audio and music engineering at organization. the Hajim School. How the Universe Says Yes to Me By Mary Werthman White ’72W (MA) Degrees of Difference: Women, Men, Draw the Strings Tight Main Street Rag Press, 2017 and the Value of Higher Education By Kenneth Meyer ’00E (DMA) Werthman White pres- By Nancy Niemi ’84, ’01W (PhD) Innova Records, 2017 ents her first full-length Yale University Press, 2017 Meyer performs a range collection of poetry, an Niemi, the director of of new compositions for exploration of the obser- faculty teaching initia- acoustic guitar, includ- vation that “the uni- tives at Yale University, ing recently commis- verse’s favorite word is explores the paradox be- sioned premieres yes / The word she uses tween the advantage of exploring themes of most often is no.” Werth- women over men in love, the nature of memory, truth, sense, man White is a retired teacher and poet scholastic achievement and enjoyment. Meyer performs globally whose works have been published in and their continued dis- and teaches at Syracuse University and multiple journals and anthologies. advantage in economic and political pow- Onondaga Community College. er. The book contributes to debates about Donnybrook the role of higher education in achieving By Thomas McFarland ’64 gender equity in society. Bootstrap Publishing, 2017 Multimedia Set in New York City A Town Called Babylon Instrumental during the Civil War, Mc- By Roderick Cyr ’01S (MBA) By Dave Chisholm ’13E (DMA) Farland’s novel tells a CreateSpace, 2017 Z2 Comics/Outside-In Music, 2017 story of the police de- Set in the fictional town Chisholm presents a partment and the Draft of Babylon, Cyr’s dysto- multimedia work Riots of 1863 through the pian novel, an explora- consisting of a graphic eyes of Patrick Kavana- tion of social tyranny, novel and soundtrack. ugh, an Irish immigrant tells the story of a neuro- Writer, illustrator, and and member of the police force. McFar- surgeon who defies a composer for the project, land is the former president of the Roch- council of Babylon’s most he performs on trumpet, ester Civil War Roundtable. powerful people. synthesizer, and voice along with Noah Berman ’12E (guitar), Earth and Elegance: A Bohemian’s Michael Conrad ’13E (MM) (piano), Guide to Creating Artisan Leather Aaron Staebell ’05E, ’10E (MM) (drums), Jewelry, Volume Two Recordings and Benjamin Thomas ’10E, ’12E By Laura Gasparrini ’82 Beyond the Sambatyon (MM) (bass). Om Tara, 2017 By Max Stern ’69E Gasparrini presents the CD Baby, 2017 Books & Recordings is a compilation of second volume in her Stern presents a new recent work by University alumni, faculty, guide to creating leath- symphony, commis- and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming er jewelry. Volume Two: sioned, premiered, and issue, send the work’s title, publisher, Stringing and Crimping, recorded by the Israel author or performer, a brief description, Binding, and Assem- Sinfonietta Beersheba. and a high-resolution cover image to blage follows up on Vol- The recording includes Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, ume One: Knotting, additional compositions by Stern, all in- 22 Wallis Hall, Box 270044, University of Braiding, and Macramé. The new volume spired by the Bible, desert, ethnic-liturgi- Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or includes 11 illustrated step-by-step cal sources, and Jewish history. by e-mail to [email protected].

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RochRev_Sept2017.indb 63 8/30/17 10:30 PM Master Class A Child’s (Diverse) Garden of Literature Children’s classics can send troubling messages to kids. Philip Nel ’92 says teach the books—but critically, and in the context of a wide range of literature. Interview by Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) by teaching them how to respond. So, for example, if a child learns that it’s OK to be angry at a book, that child has learned a very im- Children’s books are some of the most influential books that any portant lesson and has a sense of agency when confronting prej- of us encounter. They’re also some of the most important litera- udice out in the world. ture that we read, because when we read children’s books, we’re still very much in the process of figuring out who we are, what we If you teach these books, they must only be taught in context. If believe, and what kind of person we’d like to become. Children’s you are teaching The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—which is books also tell us at a very young age who matters, who doesn’t deservedly a classic and really racist—you should also teach some- matter, whose stories are worth telling, and whose stories are not thing like Julius Lester’s To Be A Slave, a collection of ex-slaves’ worth telling. narratives where we learn of mothers who kill their own children rather than allow them to be sold. My early book on children’s literature, Dr. Seuss: An American Icon, was a look at the cultural significance of Seuss’s work. Al- Fifty percent of school-aged children in the United States are though it includes a chapter on Seuss, my new book is on the per- nonwhite. But only 22 percent of children’s books published in vasiveness and complexity of racism in children’s literature. Was 2016 featured nonwhite characters. And only 13 percent were the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Litera- by nonwhite authors. The whiteness of the publishing industry is ture and the Need for Diverse Books has Seuss in the title because one reason. Another is that, if you’re a children’s author of color, he did racist as well as anti-racist work it’s a lot easier to get a book published if that book is nonfiction, a memoir, or a historical novel. It’s much harder to get it published I think we should teach offensive children’s books. We should if it’s science fiction, fantasy, or dystopia. learn to read uncomfortably and help children to read uncomfortably. We don’t help children by shielding them It’s important to invite young people to ask ques- from painful, difficult, hurtful experiences. We help tions about the books they read. Take the example of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Oompa Loompas. The Oompa Loom- ’92 pas are shipped to England in crates and Philip Nel they live in a factory. They never leave that Home: Manhattan, Kansas factory, and they’re paid in beans. What University Distinguished Professor of English, would that be like? Does that sound like a Kansas State University; author of blog “Nine Kinds fun way to live? Do you know any stores that of Pie” at Philnel.com, as well as books includ- accept beans for payment? Has Mr. Wonka ing Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden offered them a good deal or a bad deal? Racism of Children’s Literature and the Need for Diverse Books (Oxford University Press, Children can engage in the imaginative 2017); Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: work of putting themselves in the shoes of How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the various characters. What would the story the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature be like from the Oompa Loompa’s point of view? (University Press of Mississippi, 2012); and Dr. There are countless retellings of fairy tales from Seuss: An American Icon (Continuum Publishing, different points of view. That’s a great way to get 2004). children to imaginatively engage—have them re- On studying children’s literature: “Children’s imagine a story from somebody else’s point of view. literature is the reason that I became a reader, and it’s the reason that I became an English major. A child might ask, why are we reading this book? But I didn’t yet realize that at the time that I was at You might say we’re reading this book so that we Rochester. There wasn’t an opportunity to study chil- can address that very question. We’re reading dren’s literature at the time. I didn’t take any classes this book so that we can talk about in children’s literature in graduate school either. I did what we might admire in the write a chapter of my dissertation on Dr. Seuss. And book and what we might not that’s when I came to realize that there’s a whole admire in the book. Adults scholarly conversation happening about children’s should honor that ques- literature.” tion. It’s the best question to ask.r

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